Computers: Software Is for Sharing
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Other programmers are not so altruistic. Andrew Fluegelman, editor in chief of PC World magazine, made more than $100,000 by giving away his software and asking satisfied users for contributions. John MacEvoy, a part-time programmer from Germantown, Md., seeks no payment for the personal-finance program he wrote, but he does make one request of those who use it. Instead of paying him, MacEvoy says, they should leave the computer keyboard for a while and take their long-suffering spouses out to dinner.
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York and John Prime/Shreveport
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