I have recently bought a copy of the magazine 'PC Utilities'. This magazine comes with a "free" cd with many differant progs and apps on it - mine sited '513 essential programs'.

while flicking through the descriptions of these progs in the mag and browsing through them on the cd........I came to 2 truities about them 1) none of them are that essential and 2) they are almost all freeware!!!

And I realized that this magazine is making money on distributing freeware under the guise of promotion. Is this legal? (I hope there are staff members from PC utilities in this forum ) or is it just a matter that it has never been brought to the attention of anyone who cares that may do something about it? Not that I care - I am just of the curious variety......

Also has anyone ever compiled a program and distributed it as freeware and if so what are the incentives to work so hard on a project and than give it away.... (other than the universal and public access to information and knowledge share - which, personally I am a great proponent of) - if that is the case, but I am not 100% sure how the freeware system works.