[ Thanks to cosmo
lee for this link. ]
“Nearly a quarter-century ago, the mantra ‘information wants to
be free’ heralded an era in which news, entertainment and personal
communications would flow at no charge over the Internet.“Now comes a new rallying cry: software wants to be free. Or, as
the tech insiders say, it wants to be ‘zero dollar.’“A growing number of consumers are paying just that–nothing.
This is the Internet’s latest phase: people using freely
distributed applications, from e-mail and word processing programs
to spreadsheets, games and financial management tools…”