Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> stbenge wrote:
>> Thank goodness for the open-source movement!
> 
> Yeah - I'm still puzzled by all that. The Amiga had a strong "shareware" 
> scene, but I'm puzzled by this sudden new craze of giving away 
> fully-supported commercial-grade software (sometimes that *was* 
> commercial!) for free. It suddenly seems to be the "trendy" thing to do, 
> and I'm not really sure how that happened.

It makes sense when your primary source of revenue comes from service 
contracts.  Give away the thing you're servicing / supporting, and 
suddenly you've a lot more potential customers.

...Chambers

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