It's not that people are unwilling to pay, its that the market price is being distorted, because the supplier (OS community) is not a profit-maximizing firm. People are irrationally giving away software out of some misguided sense of charity. I have nothign against free-as-in-speech software where the source is available, but the free-as-in-beer approach is ultimately one that will harm developers all over.
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It's not that people are unwilling to pay, its that the market price is being distorted, because the supplier (OS community) is not a profit-maximizing firm. People are irrationally giving away software out of some misguided sense of charity. I have nothign against free-as-in-speech software where the source is available, but the free-as-in-beer approach is ultimately one that will harm developers all over.