Presumably you choose to work for free and your employer expects this of you or do you get remunerated for your efforts? Do you have to pay for food or can you just take it from the supermarket. I mean, after all, it grows in the wild yet people want to make money by selling it.
It's a fact of life that some people choose to offer things for free, others feel that it's appropriate to add effort and then want to charge for that effort which has been expended.
I can take the source files and read all the information about how to compile a viewer and I can offer that for free as "Sassy's viewer" but what I don't have is the skill set to cross compile that with suitable changes for Android and as a result I personally don't feel that it's inappropriate to remunerate someone for putting in that effort, it's a VERY different offering from the regular viewer.
Furthermore, it enables me to operate my business more functionally from my phone and thus I derive valuable benefit from it and as such the fee is appropriate based on the benefit I derive.
If you don't feel that you derive benefit then that's fine, don't pay but please don't assume that everyone should offer everything for free. We already have that mentality in SL and it's not exactly helping.
Maybe you should suggest that they offer Ad-supported like so many of the other Android apps as a third licensing option but I'd rather pay to not have the ads though each to their own.
No affiliation, i'm just a very happy user of it and I make use of it for far more than just messaging, the feature list is on the website. I have Lumiya too but use that far less frequently.
