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No Free Lunch for Software after All

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Software’s lack of reproduction costs provides benefits to not just legitimate developers but also people who want to use software for criminal purposes. The software community must address this issue… Click to show full abstract

Software’s lack of reproduction costs provides benefits to not just legitimate developers but also people who want to use software for criminal purposes. The software community must address this issue or risk disenfranchising the users on whom the software industry depends.

Keywords: software free; free lunch; lunch software; software

Journal Title: IEEE Software
Year Published: 2017

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