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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Although I find it very generous and helpful, I often wonder how some guys like Patrick Chevalley and others can spend enormous time on fantastic programs, then give them away!
Ricci from Italy has posted a thread in here and other Astro Forums containing hundreds of totally FREE Astronomy software programs.
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That's usually a passion thing Ken, but it's increasingly becoming a mainstream business model too. Take Mozilla for example. These guys are wanting to change the world. Linus Torvalds (Linux) and plenty of others do it for many reasons - learning, proving that it can be done better, peeing off a competitor, etc. They sometimes capitalise on their effort at later stages after what they've done has become ubiquitous.