![]() Hell, even Office 2011 is not ready yet :-D DiskMaker X was updated on Wednesday a mere few minutes after El Capitan was available. Also, I tried to provide Day 1 support for each new version of OS X since 2012, and (almost) managed to do it. Also, I'm not stealing money here, and I provide free support to every user who could have an issue (sometimes, not even problems due to using DiskMaker X !). And sometimes, people just send one dollar, adding in comments "I don't have much money, but your software made the process really easy for me". Sometimes, people pay a *lot* of money (think about a hundred dollars !), because they just put this price in the value of the software. I don't put a gun on the head of the user, they chose to pay according to the value they put in the software. ![]() And hey, if people still want to use it without paying, no problem. See, Ars Technica readers are quite knowledgeable, but for them, the whole process seems a lot scarier and prone to error than clicking a button and let the process go (*). No pressure.Īnd yes, a *lot* of people decided to pay, because it made the process more convenient for them, easier than using some command line. ![]() At the end, you just decide if it is valuable or not by paying, or not. Well, why not ? But the whole process remained *free*. Then someone suggested that I could put some donation button for it. Then, I decided that I could try to share it, *free of charge*. Besides, DiskMaker X adds a few things, like customizing the icon according to the OS you chose, finding it automatically on your hard drive, adding a custom background, and adding the version of the OS in the name of the disk. I developed this tool just to see if I could do it with Applescript and command line tools, as I am a scripter guy, not a "real" developer (and I'm totally OK with that). Otherwise we would still be working on DOS and happy with that. However, the commodity of a GUI CAN'T be denied. Heck, even good ol' Disk Utility does this : in a way, you may consider that the Repair Permissions button was just a wrapper around diskutil. That's what tools like Tinkertools and many others just do. As the developer of the mentioned app, allow me to answerįirst, wrappers around GUI tools are not new.
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