Dave Winer: "People who work for free have no incentive to please users, or even create usable software." [thanks Aaron]
Did I read that right?
Presumably people who kiss for free have no incentive to please their lovers.
About 70% of the world's websites use free webservers. Most of the popular web scripting languages are free: Perl, PHP, and python (am I wrong about this one? Is .NET more popular?). On the Mac, the most popular RSS newsreader, NetNewsWire Lite, is available in an excellent free version. The most popular products for personal publishing online are mostly free.
The most popular operating system is not free but, well, it does not please users.
[Documentable additions to the above list of free applications that are most-popular in their class are solicited]
The Astros have been in even worse shape, using three starters with less than two years of major-league experience. Signing Clemens to go with right-hander Roy Oswalt and left-hander Andy Pettitte again gives them a legitimate Big Three once again. If Clemens, after several minor-league tuneups, proves anywhere near as good as he was last season, he will give the team precisely the lift it needs.