best outliner you use? (2018)

Posted by tightbeam
May 10, 2018 at 05:48 PM

You speak for *everyone* in the group? That’s ludicrous. Outlining software is such a niche that paying a small developer twenty or thirty bucks for his product likely won’t keep him going forever, and certainly not if he doesn’t have a full-time job elsewhere. Once the faithful have paid for their licenses, how big is the rest of the market? A subscription *might* be the solution - but as someone else posted, subscriptions are good for developers, not for customers.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
This group has given more money to more small developers than any
>average software users by orders of magnitude. Suggesting that we are
>hypocrites unless we are willing to make annual commitments to small
>developers is ludicrous.
> >tightbeam wrote:
>There’s a lot of talk on this forum about “supporting” small developers.
>>A subscription scheme likely is the best way to support small
>>developers, as it gives them a steady stream of income from their
>>limited number of users. It seems a bit hypocritical to be deadset
>>against subscriptions when that is an ideal business model for small
>>developers and those who wish to support them - and in turn, gain
>>support from them, in terms of bug fixes, troubleshooting, and answers
>>to questions.
>>