Jason Silver

Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

Intelliscript Downloads No Longer Free

For the last number of years I have made my Perl scripts absolutely free to download, and have depended on the honour system to encourage people to pay for the scripts if they use them. I sold a few scripts--maybe once a week or a couple a month. I wasn't keeping track of how many scripts were being downloaded each day, which I should have been-- just lazy to add that feature.

But a week ago I decided to stop allowing free downloads and ever since doing so have started getting a lot more purchases. So sorry to those of you who are inconvenienced, but I had to start paying for that web site if I was going to keep it going.

It's a lesson to me: people won't pay for something unless they have to. I guess I'm the same way, so I shouldn't be suprised. :)

~Jason