“The concept of free software has been around for decades….
free software advocates want software to simply be available for
free, along with the source code for that software. This allows
other programmers to make contributions to the code and pass it on,
again for free.”
“While free distribution is a great marketing tool (think about
all those samples you get in the mail), what does it say about the
product itself? Frankly, it says that the product (or the effort
that went into making the product) has no value. Is that what you
software engineers out there want?”