zdnet.co.uk: Equilibrium price of proprietary software is nothing

[Alex Hudson]

Ben Finney wrote:
> If the recipient can't be convinced to pay without artificially 
> restricting their freedom in the work once legitimately received, 
> you're doing it wrong.

Except the problem is probably more like they're being offered a 
discount for artificially restricting their freedom, because the 
entrepreneur is taking the up-front risk of development and banking on 
the later growth of the sales to receive the return.

Without understanding the risk/return model, you can't really understand 
the benefits to developer (and user, in fact) of the proprietary model, 
and are unlikely to overcome it :)

Cheers,

Alex.