Good talk on GPL and public domain. It shows you understand the subject. So, Boy Genius, how do you propose that shareware software writers get paid for their product? Because, as of now, none of them have made one red cent for their decidedly superior work and Microsoft which makes mostly crap, with few exceptions, has made 100 billion?
I am just being provocative here because the question occurred to me, and nobody has answered it. I suppose you could say people will not pay if they don't have to. The other side of the coin is, if all software is charged for, there is too much that you actually need to be able to pay for it all.
Can you imagine buying all the shareware in the Tucows site? It would cost you about 100,000 dollars and you would still need a few utilities.
But you cannot sell a program for fifty cents. I don't think they will sell them for ten bucks either, although they would probably make a lot more money if they did. The fools.
The Wise One.
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