🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4hptl0$5c7@news2.deltanet.com>, fuz@deltanet.com (Scott
Ellsworth) wrote:

> My own definition, unless other information changes it is that freeware 
> is not free, merely something that someone else has funded the 
> development of.  Often, that someone is a federal agency or 
> grant-supported university spending (conceptually) my tax and pledge dollars.
> 

I resent that statement.  I have released mutiple freeware offerings for
FileMaker Pro.  No one "funded" the development.  I released the software
for free.  You don't have to pay for it.  I, in no way, purchased my
computer or my copy of FileMaker Pro for the purpose of developing
software.  I thought it would be fun to do and I did it.  Everything was
already paid for.

> > Why not be a freeware programmer instead?
> 
> Because then you get no return from your investment.
> 

This is just not true.  I have received a large amount of eMail from
people who use the software I released.  All of them from people thanking
me for making the FM Pro template.  Some from people who were surprised it
was "free".  It makes me feel good to have made a usefull tool for some of
the folks out there on the internet.  For me that is a tremendous return
on my investment.

jack (jms@hodgkin.mc.duke.edu)

Author of CDLite, CDLite Pro, and CDLite Classical for Filemaker Pro.