[prepend]

Id rather also pay for the software. My point is charging $6 for dark mode is still “begging.”

I like the shareware model where people pay what they can, or what they perceive the value to be. I don’t think this is begging.

Programming is kind of unique because the marginal cost of production is near zero. I think this is a feature, not a bug and why it’s possible to have single person dev companies that are quite lucrative.

[satvikpendem]

People who offer their labor as shareware will tend towards making 0 dollars. That's just the reality of it, if people don't have to pay, they won't. If you want to make money, you should...charge people money.

[prepend]

That’s not true at all. Check out id software. They made gobs of money through shareware.

And of course there’s lots of open source developers who are excellent and donate their time with only expecting $0.