I wonder how the author of the article makes a living? It seems quite spiteful to try and undermine a fellow developer like that. Isn't anyone who works on GNOME working for Red Hat, without getting paid? They were a for-profit company last time I checked...
So what if someone does the labor of porting up-to-date gedit to OS X and wants to get paid for it? If it was that easy to keep it up to date, the free one would be up to date too.
its absolutely fine to take money to properly maintain and port a software for money. it does feel kind of scummy though if they're portraying themselves as if they're actually the sole developer of said software. and that is the vibe i got from skimming their product page.
The licence allows it so it's ok.
It used to be just at around one quarter during 2.6-2.10 days, then it jumped to above 90% when they scared off the prevalent majority of developer community during TOPAZ (3.0) train wreck.
What was the name of guy who was running around with "GNOME UX" thing? Anybody remembers?