I for one, am extremely grateful for Filtermeister, I would not have been able
to do Photoshop plugins without it. The internet is sad that way, you always
hear the negative stuff (especially in a support-type of forum like this). As a
learning programmer myself, I am full of adoration for people that are willing,
and have time, to do projects like these (and I always pay donation money or
license money when I end up using these things commercially).

I would be more than happy to pay more money for FM if that meant more support
from the developers. FM is a niche product, and one I would guess that it's
almost impossible to get more developers interested in. Your product actually
enables others to earn money, and that should be reflected in your license cost.
It's more expensive buying four beers in Norway than it is buying a FM
license... So if money could be an incentive to keep on developing FM, I am
prepared to dig deeper into my wallet :)

Cheers,
Rune


--- In FMML@yahoogroups.com, "Martijn van der Lee" <martijn@...> wrote:
>
> Here's the long and short of it, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> I could do a number of things with what little spare time I have:
>
> 1) Developed FilterMeister. Which is an unpleasant, unsatisfying, unpaid and
-- MOST IMPORTANTLY, DO NOT SKIP THIS PART -- thankless job.
>
> 2) Develop many other things. Which are fun, challenging, makes me quite a bit
of money and generallly have a supportive and productive social environment.
>
> The sum of this is that there is very little reason for me to develop FM other
than for the parts of it I personally care about and enjoy.
> Sorry if this sounds harsh, but those are the facts. If you were in the
position I described above, you'd probably feel the same.
>
> That being said, I still enjoy creating graphics algorithms and still work on
FM from time to time (scripting is improved to the point of being usable in the
next release).
> FM development is currently VERY slow, but it's NOT dead. In fact we have a
new member who I think may do some good things in the future.
>
> Kind regards,
> Martijn W. van der Lee
>
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