Hence my suggestion for a "BeerPal" program...Q5sys wrote: If users were providing some benefit to the devs in some way... then it would be a symboitic relationship and it would be in the devs best interest to heed the wishes of those who support them.
How else can I sent a beer or twelve to our gracious benefactors?...
But it could just as easily be a "bounty" on a new app, program, or patch... If enough people add to the bounty, the problem would be resolved.
I don't see the devs agreeing to even a couple back-seat-drivers. I do see them quitting, if a popular vote determines what they will work on. Why would they subject themselves to such a form of slavery?...But without users benefiting devs... what you are asking the devs to do... is surrender to a few thousand back seat drivers as it were.