If we did this, we would probably want to improve addon selection within Composr. It would embed the full app store within Composr rather than a simple selection tree.

Surely if people want to charge for addons and themes, they can provide the downloads from their own websites (and the support). Whilst this may encourage more external development, the motivation for them would be financial rather than for the greater good. I think there are better things to devote your coding time to :)

I agree with KingBlast. I think for the sake of keeping the open source model with ocProducts, the addon registry should not have functionality to allow for the "purchasing" of addons; that should be done via. a developer's personal registry.

The amount of addons for WordPress is ridiculous, as is trying to patch together the website you want with it. I found it frustrating, and you know I like to have a dabble. Composr is a far superior platform to build a website with and only occasionally annoys me with beeps, so hopefully we can push to raise the awareness and encourage hundreds of people to make addons which will mute the incessant beepings. (Even though you turned them off, they will find a way to alert me to nothing whatsoever for no reason whatsoever).

I'm not paying for one though, even if they do come back. Even if it's on sale from your fancy new app store.

This is antithetical to the direction we are going in. We're trying to incentivise users to participate in a fully Open Source community together, as part of one big autonomous organisation. If people want to bring hard currency (dollars etc) into that, it should be outside of the main website.