Royalty for developers - need open source App Store

In the developer world, royalty concept is not widespread, but glad that Apple has introduced the royalty through App Store.

What's in royalty?
You--the developer code a piece of logic for a company and it get sold and start milking; but you don't get anything even if it sells more than million copies. Apple's App Store is a novel concept that the developer acts as a company and directly gets sales commission.

Why royalty is important?
A book author gets royalty, a film maker gets it, an artist gets it--but not a developer. A developer has to code, code, code to live.

Who can change the scenario?
After open source revolution, I think, it's time for "royalty revolution". We need a movement like "free software movement" by Richard Stallman to take the royalty concept to all developers. In short, we need an open source "App Store"

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Oct 1, 2010, 10:34:00 AM

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