After purchasing Victoria’s Hibari twitter client for the Mac, I was presented this:
What is this indie software dream? I don’t know from personal experience, since I never tried to sell my software (yet). You can Flattr CodeRay if you want, but thinking about the money I could possibly earn this way makes me giggle.
But I still take some part personally in the indie dream, by using and (more important?) buying and promoting software that I see as indie:
- Cinch window manager from Irradiated Software
- ExpanDrive from the company of the same name
- TextMate editor (Allan Odgaard)
- and the already mentioned Hibari Twitter client (Victoria Wang)
I don’t think of Mozilla (Firefox, Thunderbird, FileZilla) as “indie”. I’m not sure about Adium, which is developed by a larger team.
Free Software
Part of the reason why I never tried to sell anything I’ve written is that I’m not comfortable with the concept of paying for bits and bytes, or ideas. I like that the internet, information, and lots of tools are free. I think that language interpreters, Ruby gems, documentation, and simple tools should be free.
That said, it’s