A lot of people who work on open-source software don't mind making money elsewhere. They aren't anticommercial.
I obviously think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
I think that freely available software can not only keep up with the evolution of commercial software, but often exceed what you can do commercially.
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.
Back in my day, I would probe by hand. Now you can get commercial software that does the job for you.
I have never written a line of commercial code in my life. Nor should I.
Proprietary software grew up, starting really in the 1980s, as an alternative and that became the dominant model with the rise of companies like Microsoft and Oracle and the like.
If you, or any public-spirited programmer, wanted to figure out what the software on your machine is really doing, tough luck. It's illegal to reverse engineer the source code of commercial software to find out how it works.
