ElementaryOS had an app store in which your code had to be open source and they still were going to take 30% of the revenue. As an indie app developer initially interested, that really turned me off.
Hey I just wanted to respond to this comment real quick. This platform fee covers the cost of payment processing and helps pay for the server infrastructure. AppCenter in itself is not a profitable venture at this time and it struggles to break even. Reducing this fee would guarantee that it runs at a loss, which might be feasible to consider in the future but for right now there’s not such a wide margin in the budget to run services that lose money
I actually don't have big problem with the 30%, especially for a small operation, but I do have a problem with both the 30% AND the ideologically-driven requirement that my software be open source. You just didn't provide a compelling alternative to other platforms. Your platform actually demands more of me, the developer, than Apple does, amazingly.
