Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Steven 
Karafyllakis" <steve@s...> wrote:
> Either way you are making use of Roy's hard work and ingenuity, and 
> taking advantage of his good will (and poor business accumen-sorry 
> Roy)to peddle someone else's product.

It's increasingly more common to offer some form of software for free 
while you work out a bunch of the bugs. Then when it is great, you 
offer it for a substantial chunk of money. Others simply make enough 
to keep going from the people that do not take advantage of the 
software author's generosity and actually send some money to help 
out. In Roy's case, if it ever amounted to enough to be able to buy 
the newest printer, it might help to make the newest changes, and 
make them better and quicker. It also might be that Roy doen't want 
to have to keep up with the software pirates, and/or develop a bunch 
of security features. You may spend more time trying to (temporarily) 
defeat the pirates than you spend writing code, or making prints.

I do seem to remember that Roy wrote this because he was unhappy with 
the performance in the Epson driver, and didn't want to spend the 
rather large amount for a RIP like Studioprint or Imageprint just to 
get the kind of prints he was looking for. Hopefully Roy will stop by 
and correct me if I'm wrong on that last part.