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51
69
Yes No
Debate Score:120
Arguments:33
Total Votes:156
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Should software be free for downloading?

Should it?

Yes

Side Score: 51
VS.

No

Side Score: 69
6 points

It is to expensive! People can't afford it. Adobe costs $1000s, Photoshop costs $100. People don't have the money to buy these softwares.

Side: Yes
6 points

The reason why this should be free is because WINDOWS IS 300 DOLLARS!

Side: Yes
1 point

The people who write other software don't see a penny of that $300. Only Microsoft does.

Side: No
6 points

If software was free than software would have less people pirating and the software can make money through there advertisement.

Side: Yes
6 points

It should be free because it would give an opportunity to people with potential to learn and allow themselves to preform to the best of there ability.

Side: Yes
5 points

Yes because revenue can be made from advertising and people should pay if they want ad-free programs. Those who don't mind ads should be able to use the software freely.

Side: Yes
5 points

It is true you can make money back from buying this expensive software but what about software such as acrobat, that is $100 (really!), that students and businesses use to make pdfs so that their documents are uneditable. This generates no revenue for the user and it really only addresses a need that is desperately needed in the original windows. Also what about those people who need that software to develop for leisure? Photoshop is world renowned for being the best image editing software out there right now and no free programs have even half the features. What if you needed a feature in photoshop that you could only use if you paid the massive amounts of money? Would you pay it? Or would you settle for mediocre. Or would you want the best?

Side: Yes
4 points

People arent rich and they cant afford all these expensive programs such as Adobe Suite.

Side: Yes

Some software is already free.-------------------------------------------------------------

Side: Yes

Yes, they should make software free or cheaper somehow. The prices are unfair. Everyone should have access to these programs somehow.

Side: Yes
1 point

Copyright is dead. Don't even think about it.

Sell services and add-ons. Welcome to the 21st century. Nice of you to join us.

Side: Yes

Only if a specific company wants it to be free. I think a company should allow its software to be free if a consumer has purchased a product of theirs.

Side: Yes
3 points

Ads can be used to make back the money spent on developing software but ads can be very annoying to the user, especially if they are pop ups and advertisements that contain sound clips. Even if a user has the option to pay to remove the ads, most people will just complain about the ads and possibly stop using the software because of it, demanding that the ads should be taken down. Take for example Google Play, even though most apps and games are free, people still complain which results in the user giving the app a bad rating. This could essentially be the same for software.

Side: No
3 points

Only operating systems should be free and nothing else.I dont think that everything should be free just a couple, for example of you insist on buying a expensive software you are committed to it and if you're really good at using it you might make money out of it.Also Which will help you payoff the price of the software which makes it worth it.

Side: No
3 points

If software is free, people might get the wrong idea and copy the software and create their own using the same characteristics and possibly taking parts of the code which breaches intellectual property.

Side: No
3 points

Software represents many hours of thought and work by the developers. If they want to charge money to be compensated for their work, they should be allowed to charge money for their software. If they think they can make enough money through ads, they should be able to use ads. If they want to give away their software, it is their choice. How much software costs should be up to the creator of the software, or the company that pays that creator.

Side: No
2 points

If software was free, there would be no incentive for software developers or programmers to create software due to the fact that they gain nothing out of their product.

Side: No
nathan_pita Clarified
2 points

Although it would be a plus for the users of these softwares for it to be free, there is a lot of hard work and dedication put into the development of these softwares, although you may say that all these big company's won't miss the money that they are loosing, there are thousands of small developers and company's that do suffer from the little things.

Side: Yes
2 points

Software should be sold because the people who wrote the software spent a lot of time to make the software and just don't want it ruined by advertisements

Side: No

Saying software should be free is the same as saying programmers shouldn't get paid for their work. Programmers spend hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours writing and testing code. Why should they work for free?

Side: No
nummi(1432) Disputed
2 points

You're not looking at the entire picture... When someone says about something being free I immediately think of "Yes, it should be, just as should be everything else."

Look at it like this, everyone works not for getting paid for it, but for the necessity of the job, of the production (or because they like the job, want to do it, etc., anything but money, and at the same time know it is necessary for the continuance of progress). No one gets paid but everyone's work is essential to everyone else. People produce for themselves and others. Everything is free, you need you get it. This can easily go completely out of topic since everything is connected, so I'll just leave it as it is.

Side: Yes
2 points

I'm not following you at all. Explain to me how I'm supposed to pay my bills if I don't get paid for my job? The ONLY reason I write software is to get money to pay my bills. If I don't get paid, I don't write software. A few programmers may do it for fun, but the vast majority of them do it for money, just like every other job. Writing software is a job just like any other job. If you don't pay someone for their work, they won't work. It's as simple as that.

Side: No
1 point

Even though some software are expensive such as Adobe, a person with the right knowledge and skills can use the software in order to create something that is good such as using Photoshop to create calendars or using Fireworks to create buttons or images on websites and games. With this, people can use the software to make back the money that they spent on the software which will most likely result in a profit.

Side: No
1 point

I believe that software should not be for free, it is good to help people out with there inquiries and questions about the program, however to make a whole software for free, you will be spending lots of time and effort to produce code and we would make little to no profit of our hard worked time to write a program.

Side: No
1 point

It is the jurisdiction of the makers as to whether they charge or not for the use of their software.

Side: No

No, because there are people being paid to take the time to create this software. The company making the product would need to turn out some sort of profit or they couldn't make these softwares. Maybe the price are a bit higher sometimes, but good things do cost money.

Side: No
1 point

How could the companies that make the software make money and stay in business if they didn't charge for their products? They could put ads in, but I doubt that makes a whole lot of money and they're just plain annoying.

Side: No