Re: [femm] Free answers

[David Meeker <dmeeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graham Gunderson wrote:

> Hi Dr. Meeker, I am too curious not to ask. Why do you give FEMM away
> for free? Your software is helping so many people. Why do you take the
> time? Regards,Graham

In the beginning, I was considering releasing femm as some sort of
commercial product. However, the more I thought about it, the more it
seemed like commercializing the program would be a big pain in the butt
for not a whole lot of money. In the long run, it seemed like everyone
would get more out of it as a freely available, open source project.
Besides, I'm a terrible salesman....

Dave.


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