October 23 2009

Re: Normality's 50.000 Downloads

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A quick follow-​​up to last week’s post about Nor­mal­ity reach­ing 50.000 down­loads: While I’m happy that the soft­ware is so pop­u­lar and that it is being put to good use in stu­dios around the world, what I’m not so thrilled with is the ratio of down­loads to donations.

So far only 13 (!) of the roughly 55.000 down­load­ers have con­tributed to say thanks and to sup­port con­tin­ued devel­op­ment of the soft­ware. Alas, that’s less than 0.1% of all down­load­ers.
Now I never expected to get rich by releas­ing a dona­tion­ware After Effects plug-​​in… but it would def­i­nitely be nice to at least be able to off­set my host­ing costs.

Main­tain­ing and sup­port­ing free soft­ware costs time and money that I am no longer able or will­ing to put in at this rate.