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If an author sells 50,000 copies and gets $1 royalty per copy, he gets $50,000.
If 1% only pay he gets $500.
$50,000 seems reasonable compensation at a glance, although if the author publishes once every 3 years and writes full time, it works out to a pretty small annual income.
And, of course, most open source software donations are above $1 per copy.
I don't think the buyer should have total control over whether payment is made, unless the author of software developer grants them that right.
It is like stealing carrots from a farmers field. One little carrot won't hurt him we think, but if 99% of all carrots are stolen, soon no-one would be tempted to grow carrots.
Helen
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