Expensive Freeware

Posted on March 28, 2009, 2:50 pm, by freewareguy, under General.

Once upon a time, good quality software was very costly. And it came to pass that independent developers started to say “No More!” … I know, it sounds mythical, but I heard that it used to be like that in ancient times.

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4 Comments

  1. marginal mag says:
    March 28, 2009 at 5:26 pm

    Yeah, software should be free! a work of the community, by the people and for the people!

  2. Dom says:
    April 11, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    Software should always be free and open :)

  3. freewareguy says:
    April 26, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    Thanks for the comments. I’ll make sure to do my best in order to update and bring high quality and usable freeware for the masses. it’s on!

  4. Ricardo Santos says:
    May 6, 2009 at 3:48 pm

    Sorry for the rant, but.

    I have never understood why people believe that software should be free.

    Should lawyers, doctors, writers, and just about everyone else work for free?
    Is your house, food, car or utilities free?

    If not, why programs should be free? Programmers have the same living expenses as everyone else. And it takes time, study, research, electricity and work to do a program.

    I see over and over how companies use GPL source programmers as free labor. Ranging from making programs that the company will use (google and others). To putting a bunch of programs on CD, add their own logo and scripts and sell it. (RedHat, the FSF and others).

    The only thing that a those programmers get is credit, which can be used in their profession to work for someone else. And even here they are trying to take that away by making a rule to keep project contribution anonymous. And calling anyone that does not follow the rule, poisonous people.

    I do, however, believe that software should be open. A user should have the right to know what he or she is installing on their machines.

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