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The current status quo for consumers is software should be free. Changing that is going to be very, very tough.

i remember back when my dad bought lotus 123 for like $60 at the local store. that was a fair value

i think the app store and ad-supported software really devalued a lot of forms of software for most lay people. my wife still gasps when i spend a buck on software

Just looked at a random PC Magazine from the mid-eighties. Lotus 1-2-3 was $319, which is about $700 in today's money. And that was by no means an outlier. A lot of PC software used to be very expensive.

And the status quo for developer pay should be zero as well. All they do is type stuff that gets turned into zeros and ones. /s

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