> How does giving away software decrease its value to the person who wants it written?
The value of something has very little to do with how much people will actually to pay for it. That nice coat in the store is worth more to me than the current price; but it's going on sale at another store across the street next week; so I'll wait and save 40%.
That device driver might be worth big $$$ to me; but I'll wait until Bob, or somebody else who needs it as much as I do, offers big bucks for it. Then I'll wait, hire some kid at minimum wage to type ftp, gunzip, configure, make, install for me; and save 99% of the purchase price. If it's Open Source and on the net, I'll get it seconds after Bob gets it.
It's time arbitrage. The first person in gets screwed relative to everybody else. Does that sound fair?
Make sure to download the.prc file in binary mode. If an ascii dump of the first few bytes of the file aren't "Quikwrite", your prc file got corrupted during the download.
The command pilot-file -l Quikwrite.prc will also report file corruption.
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> How does giving away software decrease its value to the person who wants it written?
The value of something has very little to do with how much people will actually to pay for it. That nice coat in the store is worth more to me than the current price; but it's going on sale at another store across the street next week; so I'll wait and save 40%.
That device driver might be worth big $$$ to me; but I'll wait until Bob, or somebody else who needs it as much as I do, offers big bucks for it. Then I'll wait, hire some kid at minimum wage to type ftp, gunzip, configure, make, install for me; and save 99% of the purchase price. If it's Open Source and on the net, I'll get it seconds after Bob gets it.
It's time arbitrage. The first person in gets screwed relative to everybody else. Does that sound fair?
Make sure to download the .prc file in binary
mode. If an ascii dump of the first few bytes
of the file aren't "Quikwrite", your prc file
got corrupted during the download.
The command
pilot-file -l Quikwrite.prc
will also report file corruption.