{"id":117,"date":"2007-07-30T09:31:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/maybe-free-is-too-cheap\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T12:22:55","slug":"maybe-free-is-too-cheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/maybe-free-is-too-cheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Free is Too Cheap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently contacted by someone asking if the page flip effect currently being sold on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070613132950\/www.pepfx.com\/flash_applications\/book\/\">this site<\/a> for <strong>200\u20ac<\/strong> (about <strong>$275<\/strong>) was using the old <a title=\"Pixelwit's Flash Page Flip Source Code\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.actionscript.org\/showMovie.php?id=459\">code I gave away for free<\/a>.  Much to my surprise, it was.  The 200\u20ac price increase doesn&#8217;t even add any new features.<\/p>\n<p>I can appreciate a guy trying to make a buck and all, but that price seems especially steep when you consider the fact that you&#8217;ll only be getting a SWF file (not the FLA) because as the site states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We don&#8217;t sell our source files, so you can&#8217;t make any modifications yourself&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think about that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because he&#8217;s not &#8220;stealing&#8221; free software doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s not ripping people off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","tag-pageflip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pixelwit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}