froggyboy604
Seasoned Veteran
Do you think it is more difficult making money by making commercial paid software which charges people to use it because of so many great free alternatives like OpenOffice, Abiword, CCleaner?
I think certain categories of software like Web browsers, Disk Cleanup, Disk defrags, and Instant messengers can be very difficult to charge people money to use since there are already a lot of great free alternatives which can be downloaded for free, and work well.
Also, I got a feeling, once a freeware software maker sees that you are making a good amount of money from your paid software and have a decent user base, the freeware competitors might make a free or ad supported copy of software which does the same task as your software.
Plus, when I browse online at file sharing sites, I see a lot of people downloading pirated versions of paid software which cost hundreds and thousands of dollars.
I think certain categories of software like Web browsers, Disk Cleanup, Disk defrags, and Instant messengers can be very difficult to charge people money to use since there are already a lot of great free alternatives which can be downloaded for free, and work well.
Also, I got a feeling, once a freeware software maker sees that you are making a good amount of money from your paid software and have a decent user base, the freeware competitors might make a free or ad supported copy of software which does the same task as your software.
Plus, when I browse online at file sharing sites, I see a lot of people downloading pirated versions of paid software which cost hundreds and thousands of dollars.
