Comments on: Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/08/17 http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/08/17/add-ons-review-update-15/ Sat, 18 May 2013 04:02:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Paolo http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/08/17/add-ons-review-update-15/comment-page-1/#comment-130113 Paolo Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:59:12 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=1788#comment-130113 Even if paid add-ons will still have a difficult time competing with free add-ons, creating a marketplace can only make competition easier for paid add-ons, and harder for free ones. Certainly not the opposite. This will shift the balance towards commercial goals, and also make the fact that people pay for the right to merely install a piece of software look as an encouraged practice on this Mozilla-hosted site.

And for add-ons that rely on an external service that the developers need to pay hosting for, if the service is useful, then the end-user might as well register and pay for the service directly on the website that offers it. In that case it is likely that the service host will be the same entity as the add-on creator, but it may be encouraged to make the add-on open source to let people adapt the front-end to their needs, promoting a wider and better use of the paid service. And if the service is useful enough, then free add-ons to access it would be created in any case, returning to the scenario where there is no point in making the original add-on closed-source in the first place.

]]> By: Jorge http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/08/17/add-ons-review-update-15/comment-page-1/#comment-123105 Jorge Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:43:38 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=1788#comment-123105 @Chris: charging for add-ons or showing ads is the developers’ choice, not Mozilla’s. We’re expanding AMO to give developers the choice to charge if they want to. They’re not obligated to do so, and I believe the majority of add-ons will continue to be free of charge. Paid add-ons will have a difficult time competing with free add-ons, and I think only a few kinds of add-ons will make sense to be sold. One example are add-ons that rely on an external service that the developers need to pay hosting for.

]]> By: Chris http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2010/08/17/add-ons-review-update-15/comment-page-1/#comment-122938 Chris Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:23:42 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=1788#comment-122938 I just completed the add-on marketplace survey. There hasn’t been any opportunity to leave comments, so here they are. Just want to let you know that I will quit using Firefox as soon as add-ons get pay ware. I don’t see by the way the sense in using a browser which let block you ads by an add-on, when this add-on is showing ads. And I don’t see any good in using a free browser whose advantage is to let you use add-ons, when the add-ons are not free. I used Firefox for many years, but there are alternatives.

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