QtiPlot - Why donate?



Many thanks to all people having made a donation in order to support this project!

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?

Since people don't usually donate money for QtiPlot, see the bar chart bellow, charging for the binaries was the only method we have found to finance our work. Despite all that some people might say QtiPlot is free sofware and binaries for Linux users are provided free of charge. In our opinion, people complaining about the fact that the QtiPlot binaries are not freely available for non-free operating systems, like Windows, show a great deal of hypocrisy. Therefore they are strongly advised to start using Linux, a completely free operating system (see, for example, the Ubuntu distribution).
Donations for QtiPlot 2011

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