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The current status quo for consumers is software should be free. Changing that is going to be very, very tough.
by slackoverflower 9y ago
The current status quo for consumers is software should be free. Changing that is going to be very, very tough.
- prodikl 9y agoi remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software
- ghaff 9y agoJust looked at a random PC Magazine from the mid-eighties. Lotus 1-2-3 was $319, which is about $700 in today's money. And that was by no means an outlier. A lot of PC software used to be very expensive.
- ghaff 9y agoAnd the status quo for developer pay should be zero as well. All they do is type stuff that gets turned into zeros and ones. /s