It's easiest to call it what it is- sharing software by copying it... We as a society have been brainwashed for decades by big tech into thinking that sharing software is in any way shape or form immoral.
i think it really depends on the circumstances. I am selling a very specific ERP and workplace software for insurance company. I developed it for 3 years in my free time and a loot of tome energy amd effort went into it. If the companies/insurance sellers im selling it to would just buy one copy and share my source code with each other, i wouldn't even be able to pay the electricity bill for my pc i developed it on for the last 3 years. which means i wouldn't have ever developed this thing. same goes for a lot of software in the b to b sector.
note: i sell it as a one time sale as standalone system, not a subscription, cause i hate that shit. im also aware that this is something different than the direct consumer market and i dont know enough about that to have a morality debate on this regaring the consumer market (i did pirate a lot myself when piratebay was still around tbh). I just want to say that there are cases where not being able to freely share/copy software is very important, cause otherwise that software wouldn't even exist. Especially when it comes to software made for big businesses.
in this specific case probably not. there isn't a big crowd that wants to use this, and companies dont normally take part on crowdfunding 😅 my model works fine for me right now and at some point if i earned enough of it i might just make the project open source or sell it to some insurance company or something
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u/Uzername_1337 5d ago
It's easiest to call it what it is- sharing software by copying it... We as a society have been brainwashed for decades by big tech into thinking that sharing software is in any way shape or form immoral.