And People like Anthony are overriding their role. While he needs to have his Plugin sales.And again: the change for it can not come from the MVP. So it is in his deep interest that not to much of this shit is coming up. If Xojo is not getting enough new users and losing in the same moment old users there will be the end of Plugin sales not only for Christian. There is not that much interest in that what he thinks. While Christian is MVP Xojo is awaiting that he helps to keep the environment clean. The Structure of Power in this environment was building up an own dynamic and that is something I can not accept. But that critics are not against Christian in Person. But I don’t have to like it and I also don’t have to accept it. So I can understand that he has to react like he reacts. And they would have many chances to hurt him deeply. Otherwise they could decide that they don’t want him around anymore. The difficult part of it is that Christian has to have a clean relationship to Xojo. Posted a “here’s how you do it with this plugin” and a declare for the same thing I cant find the specific thread at the moment but there was a recent case where he did exactly this And if the only answer is a plugin, which in some cases it is, even a “use this plugin like this to solve your problem” Not “core components”Īs for “buy my plugins” well … I would encourage to more frequently post alternatives as well. Plugins SHOULD be for the things that Xojo wont add because too few people need them - niche needs. His DB plugins have worked where Xojo’s didn’t.īut it IS a problem for Xojo that plugins have become “the way you work around Xojo bugs”
So, as an enterprising business person, he filled that need. For along time it was the only way to get a nice date picker etc that worked x-platform. Bjorn sells plugins that, in some cases, I would argue should be part of what Xojo offers. THAT is a problem for Xojo - and a business opportunity that Christian has taken advantage of as have others. The sad truth is that plugins have, for so many, become the only way to deal with Xojo’s bugs and issues That is not that what I would await from a programming language like Xojo. The painful fact is that for every even small stuffs Plugins are needed at all edges. It is not the fact that he writes the Plugins. In all respect to users don’t like the Behavior of reading all time Buy my Plugins, we have to be fair.
And he realizes fast how he can reach that point. And so he looks which Plugins are needed. But like every Businessman he also has to sell. He is good in that what he is doing as a programmer. I don’t believe that Christian has more Informations.
Plugin vendors want to see Xojo grow & expand as that may translate into more sales for them There is some degree of conflict of interest and also of mutual self interest These folks are in a weird spot, esp if they are a vendor & MVP I dont think that has changed since the inception of the MVP program As notes Christian, and other plugin vendors, have been plugging gaps in functionality in Xojo for a long time