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by amelius 1910 days ago
What developers want most is a way to market their work, see app stores. Developers are willing to pay up to 30% of their revenue.
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Even the hosting and download function of app stores is valuable. It replaces auto update frameworks embedded in the app and earlier download sites were all super suspicious and full of ads with fake download buttons.

Even Sourceforge started out good, then sold to someone who put adware in the downloads - although it's back to good now.