[anatari]

No doubt there is more opportunity today than before as the Internet has grown, but 15 years ago, I got my start as a young teenager selling shareware, which was quite common back then. I don't have any data on this right now, but I bet the economics of it was better back then for the little guy too because there was so little competition versus the millions of apps out there now. I made more money back then selling shareware than 99% of people do now selling apps.

[Swizec]

Well back when I was a teenager nobody even implanted the idea that "Hey, you can sell this stuff you know?" in my head. I just did it because it was fun and everyone else was doing it for free, so I did as well.

It took me ages to realise that you don't have to just give your software away for free and that is fine too.