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All of the other companies need to pay licensing costs as well, and I believe the current licensing costs are unsustainably low.

In the early years of the internet everyone got very excited about free. Free music, movies, and information. I think that right now society is collectively learning the same lesson so many developers have learned and posted about here. Free customers are the worst customers. Charge more. Inflation is virtuous. Deflation is a downward spiral into the abyss.



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