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+# Pineapple Notepad
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+Pineapple Notepad aims to be a simple, lightweight, and easy to use notepad application that can be a cross-platform alternative to Notepad++. It's based on [Scintilla](https://www.scintilla.org/), [Qt](https://www.qt.io/) and [KDE Framework](https://develop.kde.org/products/frameworks/), and plan to be available on Windows, Linux and macOS.
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+## Pricing
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+Pineapple Notepad itself is free of charge. Note that it is closed source. See the following section if you want to support Pineapple Notepad and make it open source.
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+## Open Source Goal
+
+Pineapple Notepad is currently not an open source project, but the goal is to make Pineapple Notepad open source. I've set-up a $150 Ko-fi goal that Pineapple Notepad will be released as an Open-Source project if the goal is reached. Please read [this post](https://ko-fi.com/post/Pineapple-Notepad-A-Cross-platform-Notepad--Alte-G2G71V8JPX) for details. If you're interested, please use the following links to support this project.
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+### Sponsor Benefits
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+Before the goal is reached, if you support Pineapple Notepad for equial or more than $10, you will be credited within the application's About dialog as a kickstart supporter. The name will be kept for at least 10 releases, after that, the name might be moved a standalone `THANKS` file in the source repository.
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+*If you have questions about sponsor benefits, please reach out to me by creating an issue or drop me a message on Ko-fi or any other form that can be reached.*
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+### Funding
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+[![ko-fi](https://ko-fi.com/img/githubbutton_sm.svg)](https://ko-fi.com/blumia)
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+[![Afdian](https://static.afdiancdn.com/static/img/logo/logo.png)Afdian](https://afdian.com/a/BLumia)