Donations for Sailfish OS Development

on the other way, why ignore small contribution?
Even if it can't resolve their gap, it is sometimes nice for both side if someone gives some small contribution for any Spending act.
Could be used for coffee drink, small brunch, don't know what else.
A dev may appreciate some small things for the comfort, and may work a little bit relaxed on his stuff.
Knowing that he is not a Writing-Machine or slave
It may build more sympathy between user and dev, at the time where the dev is completely incognito.

The staff of Jolla and Sailfish make money by selling sailfish OS licenses to parties like Intex and Turing. At least that's my believe, so I don't think extra funding from existing users is necessary. I think the developers of third party apps need to be supported by donating money.

with such a business model a lot's of people will boycott sfos direct.
But if we make a 2 way strategy, one casual for free and one for expanded experiment, like business functions/tools which would be financed by the using, or by updates...

@naalaa I don't think you have any reason to blame the majority of community members of being ignorant leachers. My feeling is that the vast majority is more than willing to help, also by contributing financially, if they only had a chance to do so. May I remind you that there is not a single product one could possibly pay for? And whenever Jolla makes an offering (e.g. two batches of the Jolla C), it is sold out by the hour.

There are many community members waiting for the chance to buy a fairphone2 with a fully supported SFOS. The community port is in very good shape, so it shouldn't be too difficult to design such an offering. The fairphone people have signalled interest in a cooperation like that and a poll among the user community has revealed that a one-off license fee of Euro 20-50 or an annual subscription fee of Euro 10-20 would appear acceptable.

So your user-bashing appears to be completely ill-advised and ignorant in itself.

@Andrik i agree with you for the part of third part. That is an other theme, but i think more is needed for the third part, than just donation. I means we miss here a motivation catalyst with different developer contests organised partly side of the community, side of OS-Owner (jolla), and maybe from some partners.
Donation-system + merely contests with price make this "area" more friendly and active, then more attractive (my opinion).

@hubat I did not talk about the members of the Sailfish community. I talk about the people, who have this behavior in general. And the number of that people is not small. Even in my circle of friends and acquaintances they are a lot. Sad to say.

hoschi buy the Turing phone, i am sure their prices will come down at some point and you really pay about the same that you would pay cash for an iphone with 128GB, i have an external SD as well so basically 256GB for a very comparible price available to american customers at the price of an iphone 7s with 256GB.