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In what worldIn what worldPosted Jan 27, 2006 20:42 UTC (Fri) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998)In reply to: In what world by jreiser Parent article: Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)
If only a few hundred people in the world will care about any particular program, you don't need DRM. Such programs sell a few copies at high prices and the users have little motivation to make them available for free. At that cost, you can usually afford to write up a good old fashion contract. The stuff that gets widely pirated is stuff that's widely popular.
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In what world Posted Feb 2, 2006 12:15 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link] Most software is actually sold in 1 copy.Shelfware is the exception, not the rule in software-development. Most programming work is done for one company, which is then going to use the result, not sell it. Of the ~100 programmers I personally know, atleast 3/4 are paid to, in some way or other, write software. Of all that software, I know only 3 people who have contributed to software that is made primarily to be sold, over the shelf as a finished product. 1 game, and 2 people working on an accounting-package (Rubicon), and even the latter is software of the type where services cost a large multiple of the software-price, and you pay pro-year for using the software rather than per copy.
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