[Sparkle] Appfresh abuse

[Uli Kusterer]

Am 23.05.2008 um 02:07 schrieb Charles D.H.Williams:
> "I'm sorry if AppFresh leads to more downloads of up-to-date  
> software, but that's exactly what our goal is."  "May I suggest  
> using Amazon's S3 hosting service ... hosting costs have never been  
> an issue for me ... You might want to ask for donations on your  
> website to cover the bandwidth costs incurred by the users of your  
> software ..." "Should you choose to block the download, we'll be  
> happy to inform complaining users about your decision, or we might  
> need to stop using an AppFresh-specific User-Agent string to ensure  
> user happiness."


  I recommend you get in touch with the developer and try to negotiate  
some more. It is not a good way of doing business for AppFresh to  
"stop using an AppFresh-specific user agent (...) to ensure user  
happiness". If a developer does not want others to keep his app up-to- 
date, then third parties should respect that. You should make that  
clear, and should also make it clear that there are other developers  
who think the same way.

  Of course, they're free to tell the user to complain to you about  
unavailability in AppFresh.

Cheers,
-- Uli Kusterer
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