There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive. But the means customary in the field of software today are based on destruction.

If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. If…

Extracting money from users of a program by restricting their use of it is destructive because the restrictions reduce the amount and the ways that the program…

It may be true that one can reach more microcomputer users with advertising. If this is really so, a business which advertises the service of copying and maili…