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by trapper 6250 days ago
Sorry but there is something that wrong here. If your product really helps someone, and is worth more than the $ you are asking to them in terms of time, pain or effort, why wouldn't they pay again?
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There are several categories of application that are useful, even essential but that are very difficult to monetise.

Basic utilities like ls, or jpeg which people expect to come with the platform are difficult to charge for. And then there is grey market software it may be that non-commercial distribution is not subject to the same degree of opposition that a commercial distributor would face.