Convert Dexpot into Paid

[CerebralFreeze]

I believe that you should change Dexpot into a paid program. I'm a firm believer that freeware is an insanely dumb idea. A person is doing all this work and then others take the fruits of all that labor. Is this fair? And argument can be made that programming can be easily replicated, so that helping one is no different than helping a million. I disagree. Helping a million users takes a team of people to support.

Every freeware we see today starts off great given the quality of the person, but they all eventually lag off. This is because it's unrealistic to expect that the programmer just continually do things for free. I believe that communism doesn't work because people should be given what they worked for. I believe that capitalism doesn't work because people ends up taking more than their fair share. In the ideal economic system, people in society give each other what is fair. This should be the basis of an ideal economic system. Not that people equally share in the fruits of their labor (communism). Not that people compete to take as much as possible for themselves.

Please forgive my rant. I wanted to say my mind for once. Please consider converting this great program into a paid model. I believe that the compensation model of the programming industry is a mess because it's a distortion of both squeezing as much money as possible and giving things away. Right now, some programs are way too expensive because owners squeeze as much as possible instead of charging what's fair. Paying $20/month for Adobe Acrobat because you can is wrong. You can say that this is what the market gives. But sometimes, the market is wrong. In fact, it's frequently wrong. We've got scientific research papers that cost so much to get access, and this stifles innovation and progress.

Then we have this program that's free. We are stealing from you. You are working hard, and then we benefit from all your hard work.

Please don't take this to mean to charge us as much as you can. Charge what is fair, given what you put into it, what we get out of it, how much it would cost to improve it, etc. I'd be willing to do it. A sliding scale that depends on how much a person can afford. (There are mechanisms to execute this idea, which we see with gaming software that exploit people's pride.)