That's not what I meant. Your Ford vehicle will initially cost you $20,000 and then you can do what you want to it. In that sense, it is free. You are free to modify it. What I am referring to is that some people seem to expect the initial cost of aquiring software to be zero, which doesn't make sense. Not many people are interested in donating a lot of their time outside of whatever they do to make money, in order to provide people with free software.
Would someone please explain to me why people seem to believe that software should be free?
I don't see why software should be free any more than I see why cars or anything else should be free.
Maybe I'm missing the point and the belief is actually that only some types of software should be free.
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That's not what I meant. Your Ford vehicle will initially cost you $20,000 and then you can do what you want to it. In that sense, it is free. You are free to modify it. What I am referring to is that some people seem to expect the initial cost of aquiring software to be zero, which doesn't make sense. Not many people are interested in donating a lot of their time outside of whatever they do to make money, in order to provide people with free software.
Would someone please explain to me why people seem to believe that software should be free? I don't see why software should be free any more than I see why cars or anything else should be free. Maybe I'm missing the point and the belief is actually that only some types of software should be free.
It should be the other way around.