nbolton

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by nbolton 12y ago
Story of my life! That's why I commissioned the video. What do you think? Some think the music is a bit babyish... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJlUiQZ84Uw
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by nbolton 12y ago
> store your gestures on the cloud Cool!
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by nbolton 12y ago
Our downloads dropped to 25% (which is sad), but our income has doubled (allowing us to double our team size).
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by nbolton 12y ago
From the user's perspective its easy to say: it looks simple, so why shouldn't it be simple to maintain? I don't think its reasonable to compare Synergy to other projects unless you've actually tried to develop the code.
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by nbolton 12y ago
Actually we're charging because we need to. Charging a small fee allows us to hire more programmers. We are not charging "just because we can". For the last 2 years we have made progress from donations, but not fast enough. E
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by nbolton 12y ago
We tried that a while ago. It turns out, around 90% of Synergy users are very technical (fellow Software Engineers and the like). Often technical people aren't that interested in support because they prefer to figure stuff out for them
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by nbolton 12y ago
Most Synergy users don't use repos, or Linux for that matter, so this new model works for Synergy (though, it probably wouldn't so well for a Linux-only project). Also, repos tend to have much older versions (at least in Synergy&#
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by nbolton 12y ago
SGI, you say! Then this page will be a blast from the past for you :) http://synergy-project.org/info/
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by nbolton 12y ago
Hint: underlying download URLs aren't behind the paywall: http://synergy-project.org/files/packages/synergy-1.6.0-r241...