[Github-comments] [geany/geany] Feature request: Please provide an AppImage for Geany (#1303)

[elextr]

@probonopd you seem obsessed with users, as if Geany was a commercial software product.  Let me agree with Richard Stallman the father of open source development, "We build the software because we want to, or because it provides functionality we need/want, we are happy that it is useful to others, but we do not gain from users, in fact we may incur a support cost.  Similarly we are sad for them if someone cannot/does not use our software, but we do not lose by that.  Chasing users is not our purpose"

If an individual wants to provide extra functionality such as packages for users (as @fusion809 is doing ), well, thats why its open source, to allow them to do so.  We are happy to incorporate low impact pull requests if something is preventing that.  But we are not interested in providing packaging and leave it to those who are.  As @b4n has demonstrated we are happy to advise and help them with it.  But we will not take over maintenance of the package from them.

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