On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 00:03:07 +0200, Peter Meulendijks wrote:
>Let's make a deal then. You spent the next year creating an RPG or another
>really good MSX game, and then you can give it away for free.
>When I finish a game that took me so much effort to make, the people who
>want to play it may give me something in return. Not because I want the
>money so badly, but it just feels good when someone is willing to spent his
>money on something you created. At least I can use it to take my girlfriend
>out to dinner to make up for all the time I spent behind my computer.
Hey, Peter, don't take it personaly, please. This is not the way I'm
taking this discussion.
In Brazil, almost everyone like the "free-open" software development. If
you do not like our software, or cannot use it because we have our own
hardware (like megaram) is another issue. But the fact is I simply don't
know a single brazilian software which is sold. It's just a point of view.
In the same way you all are discussing to make a program for MSX2 so many
users can play it, we think if the program is free, more people will play
it.
But if you think FudeBrowser, Uzix, BrMSX, and lots of other brazilian
softwares did not take time to be produced, so you must think again,
because they did. And all of them are free.
I will say again: I THINK YOU CAN CHARGE FOR YOUR SOFTWARE, I think
it's nice also. You, and you alone, can say how much your work cost.
But give the software for free doesn't means the work cost nothing
to the author.
I respect all programmers by the software quality, and not by the
its price or number of disks/number of CDs it has.
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