Commercial plugins and their visibility on this site

tensh	#24648 2010-05-21 17:03
Contributors Thanked: 12 times	Hi; I'd like to bring a voice to the case of commercial plugins and their placement on the site. I have nothing against commercial plugins, but I think it would be better to separate commercial plugins from open source plugins for clarity. It doesn't look nice from the perspective of a plugin searcher and somebody new to the site. As he browses plugins section and sees something great, and the he realizes he cannot download it, a thought could probably raise in his head: "But wait a second, isn't it supposed to be an open source contribution? They are trying to cheat me!". Either there should be a separate section for commercial plugins, or each commercial plugin should be labeled by [COMMERCIAL] in the name. That's my opinion... This is how it is done in any other Open Source software site - the Commercial and Open Source contributions are clearly distinguished to prevent confusion. We are proud of Open Source after all!

tensh

#24648 2010-05-21 17:03

Hi;

I'd like to bring a voice to the case of commercial plugins and their placement on the site.

I have nothing against commercial plugins, but I think it would be better to separate commercial plugins from open source plugins for clarity. It doesn't look nice from the perspective of a plugin searcher and somebody new to the site. As he browses plugins section and sees something great, and the he realizes he cannot download it, a thought could probably raise in his head: "But wait a second, isn't it supposed to be an open source contribution? They are trying to cheat me!".

Either there should be a separate section for commercial plugins, or each commercial plugin should be labeled by [COMMERCIAL] in the name. That's my opinion... This is how it is done in any other Open Source software site - the Commercial and Open Source contributions are clearly distinguished to prevent confusion.

We are proud of Open Source after all!