[pdpi]

Clearly, that's a simplistic view of the world. The iOS app store (and, I expect, Play too) is choking on shit-quality shovelware, while I pay zero for Ubuntu and a whole range of other high-quality open source tools that have tons of volunteer contributions.

Adding financial incentives to a community built on a share-and-share-alike mentality skews things a lot. I can see this whole paid mod thing working, but it's going to take a much gentler approach than what they did here.

[dogma1138]

You pay zero for Google products also but it just as does canonical has plenty of full-time paid developers on their payroll.

In fact I can't think of a single real high end open source project which it's development isn't fully supported by an army of paid developers.

[UK-AL]

There's also a ton of quality apps.