No, but it has the nature of a tax. I'm not particularly crazy about taxes.


My observation here is Kaleidoscope 1.x schemes were more or less recolorations of Apple's GUI. The windows were basically the same. When Kaleidoscope 2 came out, you could reshape the window edges, move widgets around (one had em at the bottom... Duncan Cowan's CoPilot scheme?). And the more interesting and inventive schemes came out then.

If you want to have a shareware fee you can have a shareware fee. Or make it donationware. Or postcardware. Or whateverware. You can even box it up and sell it retail. But not everyone wants money for the work they do.

Proof? Some (I refer to software fees more generally here, but the principle is the same) -- some ask that you make a donation to your favorite charity. They're obviously not doing it for the money.