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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Software is not "mostly" free. There is software that you can "use" for free, but it is paid for by advertising $, do the developers are getting paid. Examples might be google, flicker, digg, gmail, yahoo mail, etc.
This is why you don't see alot of "line of business" (boring) software out there for free. I write LOB software, and get paid to do it with the sales/support revenue from that software.
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There is plenty of software that is "free," and not paid for by advertising of any kind. The BSD's, for example- best operating systems that exist. BSD also serves as a base for Mac OSX. How about Apache? You could class all of these as "business" software. Apache, the "free" webserver, is used by many more websites than IIS. In fact, you might say Apache runs the web.
In the field of software, I don't think anyone can make the claim that sales price is related to quality. Take UNIX, for example. One cannot call BSD "UNIX," but it is. And the BSDs are better than any commercial UNIX that ever existed, even though the commercial UNIX source licenses were $65K and up. In fact, BSD contributed something like 95% of the actual code base for the old AT&T "commercial" SVR....