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StrokeIt source :)Posted by Keith Lea
Unfortunately, I have no plans to make this open source. Although I am an open source advocate, and I do work on other open-source projects (<a href="http://www.kmeleon.org">K-Meleon</a>, etc), I do need to make some money from at least one of my programs.
I intend to always make StrokeIt free for personal use, but I'm hoping to make some money selling registered plugin licenses to companies looking to include extensive StrokeIt support in their projects. In a perfect world, everyone who uses StrokeIt would say "wow, this is really great, I think I'll donate some money", and then I would be more than happy to release the source...but until that happens, I need to keep the source to myself it hopes of finding other ways to make this profitable. -- Jeff
I migrated to Ubuntu + Beryl recently (linux) --- I am moving far away from windows.
If you are planning on making money, I hope you are in the process right now .... Great software -- I love it. I have used it for 3+ years. Nothing that I have found like this in the linux world. Hit it while it's hot. (Otherwise another programmer will have to do it & make the money) I am all for open source -- but if I have to pay for this, I will. Keep it up & Spread it around. -Shannon
I am one more of the ones above that do not really go full migration to Linux because could not find anything like Strokeit for it. I say I pay 10§ for that porting. I have been using Strokeit for +4 years and its almost perfect. Please at least think in the possibilities to port it to linux (it does not mean you can no longer sell this as a plug-in to other companies or make some money by donations).
Anyway, good job, my sincere thanks. Juanma.
Shame to see development of this great tool died.
If the author of this tool is reading this, how about following idea (I'm sure something like this has been brought up before, but I won't read all forum entries): Make up some donation alert on the mainpage and set goals. Like, if people donate more than - example - 500$, you'll do a new version (working out issues with Vista). If people donate more than - example - 2000$ in 6 months, you'll release the source... I think a lot of people would love to support and donate, but after 2 years of no updates there's little motivation to do so...
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Yes, I agree with Alex. I'd already donated $20 before I moved to Vista just to say thanks for a fantastic programme. And I'd be happy to add another $50 if I new this was going to be fixed for Vista - judging by other comments on the forum I think a lot of other StrokeIt fans would open their wallets too. Where are you Jeff? Hope you're not ill S
Cries of "where are you, Jeff" and pleas to work on StrokeIt rise and fall like waves in this forum. Maybe we can get a wave going here :)
What Simon says goes for me too. StrokeIt has become for me not just nice or useful but essential to my getting my work done in an efficient and comfortable manner. I'd almost say my livelihood depends on it. I've said before, and I'll say again, if money would help Jeff get back in the game, I'm sure we in this forum can come up with money. And If Jeff is unable, unwilling, or uninterested in working on StrokeIt, I would beg him to make the sources available. I and others with experience can organize a Sourceforge project and develop StrokeIt in a responsible manner. I don't know if he even reads this forum. I guess I'll try the email route as well.
This is the some open alternatives for Linux:
* http://sourceforge.net/projects/mygestures: like strokeit, but without GUI * http://sourceforge.net/projects/easystroke: it have a GUI, but you can't define gestures to specific applications (the developer is planning to do that) att, Lucas |