He is well spoken does make a lot of good points about the need for these
tools to be free software. He does bring to light another problem where a
software company develops a piece of software, gets selfish by charging like
$10,000 per license, and therefore is out of the reach of the average
consumer. That software company justifies it by selling to a government
organization that somehow gets convinced they need it and buy these licenses
with tax payer money.
This way of software development needs to stop because it takes advantage of
others. It may be true that this software can be avoided or simply pirated,
but if no free alternatives exist, the potential user is screwed.
Some also say that the mentality of selling software is on its way out as
things are moved to the cloud and the industry moves to a software as a
service model instead. Will this help others or will we have to deal with
$10,000 license fees in a new model?
