The world is full of risks. Got to deal with them.
It helped that I had 8 years (post-amzn) not needing to make any income and thus able to build a large amount of goodwill and visibility within relevant communities.
People do "steal" the software in the sense of putting it into DVD/ISO packages that they charge for.
My concern has never been that everyone pays, only that enough people pay. But perhaps that's why Ableton Live changed the zeitgeist of computer music production, and Ardour is just ... Ardour.
It helped that I had 8 years (post-amzn) not needing to make any income and thus able to build a large amount of goodwill and visibility within relevant communities.
People do "steal" the software in the sense of putting it into DVD/ISO packages that they charge for.
My concern has never been that everyone pays, only that enough people pay. But perhaps that's why Ableton Live changed the zeitgeist of computer music production, and Ardour is just ... Ardour.