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I dunno. I find his attitude dubious. [...]
This guy wanted money. He saw what he did as work that he deserved compensation for. This is the wrong attitude if you ever want to code Free Software. You have to think of yourself more of an artist than a bricklayer.
Yup. He complains it costs him AUD 110.95 per month ( approx USD $85) to distribute his code from his web site. His biggest problem is he needs to find a better web hosting service. I didn't spend a lot of time comparison shopping for web service and I pay less than 10% of what he pays. It is interesting that he can't afford to put up a link to a little gzip'd source code. Per the web site: "Can I Still Get The Code? Nope. Bandwidth is all gone. (40GB as at 16:50 AEST (GMT +1000))" However he still has the bandwidth to put up a page complaining about ungrateful code downloaders using up his bandwidth. Well, dangitall. I didn't know I should be charging people $84 for downloading files from my web site. It's time to switch my home page to a giant, blinking, neon PayPal button.