Welcome to 2007, everyone.

MacHeist, MacAppADay and MacZot hurt developers, and as a result, hurt their users.

Users love these services because they get applications for free that would normally have cost them money. Developers attempt to like these services, believing that their mind-share is increasing, even as their support costs go up and sales don't increase.

It's not so great that MacHeist is giving 25% of proceeds to charities of their choice, either. There are better ways to do that, where the charity gets exactly the amount you want to donate.

One Mac user is fighting back against the farce with The Real Week Of Independent Mac Developers.