With the internet generation coming into its own in the software development marketplace, more and more we are expecting software to be web-based, and free. Look at myspace, youtube, thinkfree and a whole multitude of other free software out there. Granted the majority of them are social networking sites but still the precedent has been set. When is free software going to be the norm?
Sure there is the opensource marketplace. Some great items are there but only commodity type software, that is so commonplace it almost seems silly to pay for them anyway. Operating systems, web-browsers and various other tools. Will we ever see innovative, revolutionary new software that can be used free from the start? If, so how do you give it away?
If you guys have any ideas, I’d be keen to know because that is what me and my teammates are trying to do. We are trying to give away a free, web-hosted software development management system called Lighthouse Pro.
Advice, avoidance, agree, disagree???