I'm not really sure what the complaint is here. Someone is so afraid of losing of sales to piracy, that they refuse to sell the product at all? Genius! Now pira

I'm not really sure what the complaint is here. Someone is so afraid of losing of sales to piracy, that they refuse to sell the product at all? Genius! Now piracy is is cutting into 0% of your profits! People sold software long before there were walled-garden app stores, and even then app stores don't really prevent piracy if someone is determined. Why not just sell a binary on your website? That's how I've purchased all my other soft-synths. > Which of course, in a totally bizarre move, kills stone dead the entire software industry and the future careers that the platform is intended to nurture - it's supposed to teach kids how to code, because software development is hard, and by learning this hard skill these kids will have a meaningful career. But in a world where software has zero value - literally zero, because in Pi world everything is free, and is supposed to be free, and any attempt to make stuff not be free will not get support - what value does that place on the people who develop software? "How are these kids supposed to learn how to code if I can't sell them my closed sourced software?" I'm not opposed selling commercial/proprietary software, but how do you delude yourself that doing so is assisting open-source and education? Also what do they mean by "will not get support"? Who should provide this support? Google or Apple don't support buggy apps. They don't push bugfixes when Tinder is broken. The best you can get is a refund for a paid app within a very small time window. > The choices are give it away for free, and support it indefinitely into the future for free, or don't release it at all on the Pi. What? You could give it away for free and abandon it, or let others maintain/support it. You can sell it and support it. You can sell it and not support it. You can preload a binary onto a Raspberry Pi and only sell it as a hardware unit. It's also likely not specific to the Pi (since they're porting it to iOS), you could likely compile and sell it for any Linux system, or even other ARM boards that compete with the Pi. Sonic Pi isn't exclusive to the Pi, it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux (ARM and x86/x64).