You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I really think it is amazing that people actually buy software.
I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.
The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software.
Software is like sex: it's better when it's free.
In short, software is eating the world.
Whatever way that we have in our head that we expect people to use a software, they'll find other interesting ways to use it that we didn't expect.
You could get an entire computer science education for free right now.
It gives you great pleasure to know that millions of developers, day to day, make their living using the software that you created.
Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware.