QtiPlot - Why donate?

Why should you support QtiPlot?

• Because QtiPlot is an open source project and the open source community really needs a profesional scientific plotting application, comparable with the commercial ones. Most of the features available in Origin and in other commercial plotting software are already implemented in QtiPlot.


• QtiPlot is included in all main Linux distributions: Debian, Ubuntu, etc... and a lot of people use it on a daily basis in their work. If you're a regular QtiPlot user, please remember that developing good software requires a huge amount of work.


• By supporting QtiPlot you can considerably speed-up its development and your feature requests will be implemented on a reasonable time scale.

Why is the code GPL but you have to pay for the binaries?

• Because I believe in the "The Virtuous Cycle" introduced by the developers of Qt in order to explain their Open Source Business Model.


• Because people don't usually donate money for QtiPlot (when I receive 20 euros of donations in a month I consider myself a lucky man). Therefore, charging for the binaries was the only method I have found to get my work rewarded. Despite all that some people might say, QtiPlot is a free sofware and binaries for Linux users are provided free of charge. Windows or Mac OS X users complaining about this distribution policy are strongly advised to switch to Linux, a completely free operating system and, preferably, to use Ubuntu.

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