[LUAU] Linux apps getting more expensive?

[Chris Wong]

On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, David and Max wrote:

> >Yes, software has been becoming more expensive... I see a movement towards
> >the DOS/Windows mode of operations. But even DOS/Windows had Shareware...
> >and the need for a good, free, wordprocessor will eventually win out.
> 
> That's what I'm concerned about.  I hate seeing anything so money-dependent
> like what's happening in Dos/Windows/Others world happens to the linux
> community in the future.

Call me a radicial, but money isn't bad. Programmers need to eat :) . It's
true that when money gets involved you lose a lot of the idealism, but I
think GPL'd stuff is way better than shareware EVER was in the DOS world.
The quality is that much higher.

I believe there's room for both.