If we want people to pay us for software, we have to contribute toward a system where value is added and money is extracted as goods and&#x2F;or services of increasing value are developed and transition between entities. This radical concept is known as &quot;industry.&quot;<p>The alternative is to be mindless coder drones that produce &quot;content&quot; for people who don&#x27;t value it but profit from it. Like musicians producing music for music companies but somehow not getting paid for it, you too can be a doofus with a Google+ account adding value to the Android or Apple ecosystem with your free app. Get &quot;wrote an app&quot; on your resume, make a snappy logo, then flounce out with a sad Google+ post to extract maximum brogrammer value!<p>I increasingly see these issues as self-serving ways for some dude to get out of the hassles of maintaining some bullshit free app with 8 users.<p>Somewhere there&#x27;s a real company who&#x27;ll cut the $50k check. Somewhere there&#x27;s a hungrier, smarter developer who&#x27;ll work around the issue. Somewhere there&#x27;s a dirtier, angrier developer who&#x27;ll fight for what&#x27;s right against inane licensing terms. This developer is none of the above, nor is he contributing to furthering the industry. Begone.