[ajcronk]

I am skeptical of using products when it's not clear how they make money.

If you give everything away for free, when will it stop being free? When will the bait and switch occur?

If everything truly is free, how long will you be around?

[mattwdelong]

They have a pro version, which costs money.

http://imvox.com/download.php

[tibbon]

Always a legit question that I hope I can answer to the best of my ability.

We are highly interested at this moment in disrupting the market more than anything else. The current market for gaming voice clients is a tad stagnant and we'd like to do better in the long run.

We have a paid Pro version, which is $24.99/year and allows more users to join a server and the creation of more servers. We are adding additional features to the pro account to make it yet more compelling for a larger portion of our gamers. We're considering various virtual goods setups, as well as in-client advertising for the free clients.

While I realize this doesn't present an entire business model , we've got a few other tricks up our sleeves too and think that if we can perfect our software then we'll have a decent chance at making it work.