[trestletech]

+1 and I really like the idea of that model and wanted to support Synergy in particular, but I almost gave up when I saw I'd have to compile from source, then did give up once I started encountering errors building from source. I would have happily given them money if they could have proven that the product worked on my equipment first (free trial, etc.) but given that it didn't seem to work, I bailed.

[crazypyro]

They purposely make it difficult and even removed documentation on building synergy to boost sales. You can find nightlies here: https://synergy-project.org/nightly

[corysama]

I don't know anything about the history of the project.

Is this the documentation you were referring to? Or, was it something else?

https://github.com/synergy/synergy/wiki/Compiling

[crazypyro]

I believe there was additional information that they removed, but maybe its all there now. That was a complaint I had read somewhere else, so I'd take that specific one with a grain of salt. Still, I think it would be silly to ignore the fact that the developers have a monetary incentive to making the project hard to compile and distribute. Maybe I'm just biased, but their site and github gives me a distinct impression that they would pretty quickly shutdown all open source aspects of the project and completely close the source if they legally could. They are hiring a CTO and another engineer. Why does an open source project with this size of scope need so much money and employees? Its clear their number one goal is to make money now, not create a quality open source project. Combine this feeling I get with how they have treated users and potential contributors in the past, I would dissuade anyone from using them as a model open source project.