Not that people will actually want to use the programs anyway, no offence.

Post edited at 6:35 pm on June 20, 2007 by ChainLightning

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I'm sure you can find this software that "costs money" free somewhere.

It's only Bandwidth that costs money.

Post edited at 6:39 pm on June 20, 2007 by Knight Morpheus

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It's only Bandwidth that costs money.

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Right, because the software engineers who make the software don't need to eat and pay their mortgages.

And in reply to LW Heroin Shotter, in my opinion, I made the programs, its up to me how I use them. And you have absolutely no idea about my level of programming ability, it might be really bad, it might be really good, but you cant exactly assume now can you?

As for the Hex watermark, thats a good idea, I never thought of that :D cheers.

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Any DRM scheme is essentially paper thin anyway, even the professionally made ones are now broken, in the end, you just have to trust your users to be honest, if you intend to sell it

If you intend to give it away for free, you should open source it so that others can work on it too and so that they can see that it is not harmful to their computer. I cannot understand why small software developers release software for free and do not release the source code, or sell it for some low price. Generally I wont touch such software anyway, it may look interesting, but once I spot that it costs money or isn't open source, I go elsewhere.

Post edited at 9:41 pm on Aug. 3, 2007 by Macropiper

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I cannot understand why small software developers release software for free and do not release the source code, or sell it for some low price.

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They may intend to sell a future version at some point in time. As to the low price, maybe they just want to earn a little pocket change to buy books or go the movies every now and then? What's wrong with doing that?

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Generally I wont touch such software anyway, it may look interesting, but once I spot that it costs money or isn't open source, I go elsewhere.

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I'm always willing to pay for good software written by motivated developers. If it saves me time, it's worth it. A lot of the open source stuff simply doesn't measure up for my needs.