Akshat, I think having a donate button in Software Center (SC) would be a great thing. However, mixing money and volunteer development is a complicated matter and it's important that such a proposal get support from a wide audience of developers and contributors.
I don't believe this is possible for Maverick SC. However, Maverick is supposed to have one app that is available for purchase instead of for free. This app will give the Launchpad/SC teams the opportunity to live-test purchasing functionality so that a future release (perhaps Maverick+1) can offer more apps for sale. And if that goes well, that would be a good time for someone to write a "donate" implementation to piggy back off the built-in infrastructure. So, it's possible but will take time.
Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:32 PM, neuromancer
<neuromancer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great idea, I agree.
Everyday massive micro payment are imho the next big revolution,
including it on next version of software center it's a win-win process,
win for little free software project who gain popularity by Ubuntu and
Canonical brand and a win for Ubuntu who gain more rumors and interest
around develop of free software application, that is more developer,
more application, more user and also more money for his products (e.g.
u1) or sponsored projects.
I absolute will use it.
Il 04/06/2010 16:01, Akshat Jain ha scritto:
Hi!
I want to know if there are any plans for having a Donate button for free
software projects in Software Center 3.0 or 4.0?
If not then it will be great to have one.
Regards
Akshat