mark k.

Did you buy the software to run your refrigerator

@otto, As someone who have been in the embedded software business for a long time, the answer is a big YES. just because you are not billed separately for it do not mean otherwise.

Yes, there are more programmers working on and more lines of code written for a “one off” software, but there are also many more people and many more cars served in mercedes garages annually than the amount of workers in and cars manufacture by mercedes itself. The two methods of doing things are complimentary and not contradictory.

Selling software is a social/socialist style thing. One person can not fund the development of windows but when you divide it between millions (almost) everybody can afford the cost.

As for wordpress.org and free leading to paid model, yes it is sucks, but this is because we can’t sell plugins on wordpress.org which basically force everybody into the bait system to just get people to come to his site. The other option is abandoned plugins or abandoned users (no support).

I would gladly pay 5% commission to wordpress.org and call it my 5% contribution to wordpress. The current system is not good to anyone. It seems like it is good for users but they are the ones that get stuck with unmaintained plugins that an “integrator” shoved into their site and now holds them back from upgrading anything.

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