On the fence about this. I liked the original post format, was entertaining, but am a little gun shy of actually downloading. If this is true and a lot of people are it would definitely be worth the dev fee.
Sure, it would, but sometimes people do stuff just to be nice. SGMiner-GM was released with our optimized Ethereum kernel, and we didn't slap a devfee in that.
Not everyone in the world is out to fuck you over.