Nic wrote:
> OK, so if my skills are valued, but what I generate is free, how do I
> live? Corporate sponsorship? (not in NZ!)
Well, there are models out there that *can* work, not that I'm
saying they'll work for everyone.
Example: We earned enough from the sponsored freeware version
of TurboNote to pay the developer. We're now earning enough from
the shareware product (TurboNote+) to pay us for our time as well.
However, if you'd asked us whether all this would have necessarily
happened this way when we started the project over two years ago,
it would have (did!) seemed a punt, no doubt about it.
I neither believe "all software will be free" in a decade, or that we'll
all get by selling only services. There's room for finished products
(and all that implies) for a good while yet. Just don't lower the bar
by imagining that all there is to a finished product is what Windows
provides in its "package" vis a vis what a Linux distribution does..
cheers,
peter
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