I mostly get nothing for my plugins.

Just had a look at it: during the 6 first months of 2009, I got 20 donations, making $117.01 (yeah, someone was kind enough to donate $0.01, bet you didn't even know Paypal was allowing this did you?)

During that same period, my most popular plugin was downloaded 75,670 times. So if all donations had been made for this plugin only (which is not the case) that would make a 0.025% donation/download ratio. Considering all my plugins the actual ratio is probably 0.018 to 0.020%

This said, I don't do plugins for the money (duh, obviously) and coding plugins has given me some "authority" which converted in a few paid gigs (and a few gig requests I turned down due to lack of time or interest, to be honest)

Donations surely warm the heart but they're not even a goal or a way to compensate my coding & support time. The only case I can get rude is when people get in touch with messages like "can you please fix this for me? It's urgent as I have a client waiting for it": having the feeling that people make money with my work and don't really reward me in the end pisses me a bit.

Oh, and the other case I can get rude is when I make a donation to a plugin author and don't get a "hey, thanks for the tip" email in return. I do respond to every donation made, this is just basic politeness.
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