If you’re like me, you really enjoy the holiday season. The time between Thanksgiving and New Years is full of family and friend get-togethers, Christmas lights, fantastic dinners, presents, and more. Giving is also a very important theme of the holiday season. This holiday season I’m going to extend the giving to Mac developers.
In honor of the holiday giving spirit, I challenge the Apple Mac HQ readers to give a little money to some of the Mac freeware/donationware developers who write software that make your life easier. If you have a little money tucked away in your Paypal account, think about giving some money to those developers that give their software away. Do you have a few favorite applications that are free? If so, drop a little money in their virtual piggy bank.
As someone who donates time to a community effort (a local adventure racing club), I know what it feels like to volunteer my time and energy. Volunteering can be a very tiring effort, and while you feel great when you get compliments, there are always some who make you feel less than valuable. It’s impossible to make everyone happy.
I’m always hesitant to ask for support from the developer of free/donation software. Why? I feel like it’s bothersome to ask for help for something that I didn’t pay for. I know my time is valuable, and I’m sure it’s the same for those that develop some of the freeware and donationware that us Mac users rely on.
As a way to say “thanks” to those developers, I’m going to give out some holiday cheer in the form of good old greenbacks. Among those I’ll be donating to is the developer of Cyberduck. If you plan on donating to a Mac developer, drop a note in the comments with the name of the application and a link to the developers website.
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December 29th, 2007 at 12:50 am
I agree and I just donated to the developer of CYBERDUCK. It wasn’t much but I want to take up your call to action and now I’m looking at the other freeware I use to do the same.
Thanks for reminding me that I should support people doing me a favor.
January 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pm
KB: That’s good to hear! Like yourself I wasn’t able to give a ton but every bit helps. I hope others were able to donate as well. Thanks for stopping by.