From Adam Sargant
Feedback’s mention of unusual licence conditions for free software (3 November 2007) reminded me of “careware” such as Paul Lutus’s HTML-editing program Arachnophilia. The “buyer” gets something of value in exchange for something the “seller” wants – which is in general “anything except money”. Lutus, for example, writes: “Here is a payment I will accept for a copy of Arachnophilia. To own Arachnophilia, I ask that you stop whining about how hard your life is, at least for a while. When Americans whine, nearly everybody else in the world laughs.”
Haworth, West Yorkshire, UK
