Oh, here is another reason software is not free. Companies who write otherwise useful and stable programs decide to sue Everyone who poses a threat by virtue of being a competitor. Software developers must get payed but so must lawyers who bring about these law suits.
Antonio Guimaraes On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:15 PM, Chuck Reichel wrote: > Hi Scott. > Excellent article! > I feel the same if some one would steel a song or complain that it should be > FREE. > If they only knew how many hours it took of composition or writing code on > our macs of course LOL! > If people would only realize that steeling software and or songs that some > one put many hours in developing that it is illegal! > > Sent from my Mac Pro > Talk soon > > Chuck > On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> Mary, >> >> Thanks for sharing the article. I agree with a lot that Brit wrote. However, >> I do think that APple has affected some of this in the sense that >> advertising is a little different and it seemed a lot of her comments likely >> targeted more the desktop world. However, again, Brit's comments to have a >> lot of truth and folks should consider what she offers. >> Scott >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Mary Otten wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> While reading on tuaw recently, I came across a link to a very good >>> article, written by a developer, listing the reasons why software is not >>> free. Since there is from time to time a lot of discussion regarding the >>> price of software, usually involving people decrying the fact that a given >>> app is not free or nearly so and somehow feeling that they are being gouged >>> by developers, I thought I'd offer this link for folks to check out and >>> think about. Remember, this author is not a blindness software developer. >>> Everything she says in her article is common sense. But since it is coming >>> from a small mainstream developer, not one developing for our small market, >>> maybe it will go down easier with those of you who post here and elsewhere >>> the view that small developers working for a small market segment are >>> somehow out to screw us over. >>> http://wildchocolate.tumblr.com/post/2943819131/13-reasons-why-software-is-not-free >>> >>> Mary >>> Mary Otten >>> motte...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
