I think about this a lot. If all software cost money, would users be more willing to pay for it? If everything was a $50-$100 utility app, $300 for a professional tool, and say $1,000 professional software package like Photoshop, would we have better software? instead of having to find some weird way to fund app development, like advertising, you could just write good software and people would pay you for that directly.
I don't know that we'd not see dependencies though. It's sometimes better to pay for a good tool than home grow one, especially if that tool is outside your area of expertise and developing one would require a significant amount of resources. Eg a featureful VM hypervisor.
I don't know that we'd not see dependencies though. It's sometimes better to pay for a good tool than home grow one, especially if that tool is outside your area of expertise and developing one would require a significant amount of resources. Eg a featureful VM hypervisor.