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Use Romeo to program cell phone / Mac interaction
Authored by: jporten on Mar 01, '04 03:20:49PM

How much of your time does it take to be worth $20?



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Use Romeo to program cell phone / Mac interaction
Authored by: nyarlathotep on Mar 02, '04 01:17:01AM

Its never worth $20 if there is an open source version which is almost as good. You can add any feature you really really want to an open source program.. usually with realitively little effort. When you find a feature you really want, you spend 5min thinking about if its likely to be ``theoretically easy to implement'' and wether its likely best done as a script of a sourc e code modification. 95% of the time, you descide, "Yes, its easy to do, but not quite easy enough, so I'll life with it the way it is." But at least under an open source lissence you have that option.

If you pay the shareware people your just incuraging them.. a bad idea. Plenty of open source authors are asking for donations, give it to them instead and don't give it to people who lissencing style harms the community (by discuraging a more real freeware author from writing a similar program).



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Use Romeo to program cell phone / Mac interaction
Authored by: watson on Mar 05, '04 03:23:21PM

What's wrong with encouraging shareware developers?

Many of them make excellent software for a _very_ reasonable price which I gladly pay because
- I'm not skilled enough to make it myself
- I don't have the time to do it myself
- in many cases they make software with the quality of (sometimes even exceeding) commercial ones.

Sure, there are many freeware developers and they should also be encouraged, but I still don't see anything wrong in using (and paying for) shareware.

Just my .02,
Henrik



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