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JordanMills · 07-15-03, 05:21 PM

Why are so many PPC developers enamored of for-pay software? From what I understand, Palm has a lot more free software available for the platform. Even some companies (Physicians Desk Reference, I believe) offer free versions for palm, but charge for the PPC version of the same software. May I offer a big fat WTF?

I don't have the cash to drop ten dollars to try out everyones latest idea. I probably won't use it enough to make it worth the cost. To that point, too many people are writing activation and phone-home garbage into their programs. Where do you get off hijacking something else without permission?

Point is, why don't people try to do something to benefit the community? Stuff would be a lot more useful if we weren't in a lockdown arms race for profit. Post up some freeware or open source. You'll feel good about it.

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JordanMills Aximsite Rookie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 81 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Commercial, shareware, freeware, and open source stuff, or, watch out I'm ranting Why are so many PPC developers enamored of for-pay software? From what I understand, Palm has a lot more free software available for the platform. Even some companies (Physicians Desk Reference, I believe) offer free versions for palm, but charge for the PPC version of the same software. May I offer a big fat WTF? I don't have the cash to drop ten dollars to try out everyones latest idea. I probably won't use it enough to make it worth the cost. To that point, too many people are writing activation and phone-home garbage into their programs. Where do you get off hijacking something else without permission? Point is, why don't people try to do something to benefit the community? Stuff would be a lot more useful if we weren't in a lockdown arms race for profit. Post up some freeware or open source. You'll feel good about it.