In what world

In what world

Posted Feb 2, 2006 12:15 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)
In reply to: In what world by dvdeug
Parent article: Stallman leads the GPL off a cliff (ZDNet)

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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