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George Dick<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Since acquiring NetNewsWire from Newsgator in 2011, we’ve invested a great deal in the continued development and support of the product suite including the addition of a free sync service. Unfortunately, the ongoing cost of support and feature development for these products require more dedicated resources than we are able to provide.<\/p>

With that in mind, today we are removing all versions of the app from sale. We’ll continue to run the sync service for another 60 days, then take it offline at the end of October.<\/p>

We would also like to announce that the NetNewsWire brand will be returning to its original creator, Brent Simmons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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You might reasonably wonder if nevertheless [Black Pixel] asked for some large amount of money. There was no charge. That’s what I mean by “incredible generosity.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

You probably know that I’ve been working on a free and open source reader named Evergreen. Evergreen 1.0 will be renamed NetNewsWire 5.0 — in other words, I’ve been working on NetNewsWire 5.0 all this time without knowing it!<\/p>\n

It will remain free and open source, and it will remain my side project.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Classy move by Black Pixel, and it’s great to have Simmons working on NetNewsWire again after all these years.<\/p>\n\n

Previously: The State of RSS on the Mac<\/a>, Evergreen Mac Feed Reader<\/a>, The Story of NetNewsWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2018-09-03): See also: Hacker News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 was the last version I shipped before the sale to Black Pixel, back in 2011. It was a free app on the Mac App Store.<\/p>\n\n

I put the source up on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’d like to run it, go to the NetNewsWire site<\/a> and download the latest build.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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My goal used to be to make NetNewsWire a great Mac app with lots of paying users. Secondary goals were to promote reading and writing on the web, the blogosphere, and RSS and open web standards.<\/p>\n\n

My goal now is to make NetNewsWire a great Mac app with lots of users. Other, no-less-important, goals are to:<\/p>\n\n