Originally Posted by Myrathi
If users don't like what the programmers produce: it doesn't sell and they don't get paid. I'm fairly sure even you can work out why not getting paid would be a bad thing?
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There's a flaw in this analogy.
Addon authors don't get paid anyway, in any real terms. It's basically a hobby, nothing more. Authors write something because they, personally, want to use it. Sometimes they're nice and share it. But if the process of sharing it becomes too difficult in their eyes, they'll just stop sharing.