>> 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.

...is has a flavour

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