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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
we've plenty of examples on this forum of people who pay for shareware (the winzip example comes to mind), not because they *have* to but out of respect for the creators.
so i'm not convinced that there is "proof positive" that all people are inherently thieving bastards who are looking for any opportunity to grab what they can and run, with utter contempt for the creators.
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I'm most certainly not saying "everyone is a thieving bastard", but the results of the experiment I quoted are interesting. A 7:1 ratio of sales between people who are given some "reason" to buy the software, and those who choose to pay purely voluntarily is "suggestive", at least, that more people will pay when given some reason to do so than will do so simply because it's the right thing to do.