Talking of open source, it seems like many of the people who'd have once been shareware developers are now the one making add ons and mods for open source softw

Talking of open source, it seems like many of the people who'd have once been shareware developers are now the one making add ons and mods for open source software. Just look at how much of the WordPress plugin repository is filled with 'lite' versions of commercial plugins, many of which act like shareware software of old. Same with the plugin scene for other scripts, including some commercial ones.