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If you disagree with the rules, you’re always free to explain your thoughts and proposed alternative. One thing I've noticed in this subreddit is how many people suggest Reaper as a free DAW. I'm not sure if people actually think it's free, or if they just think of never having to pay for it to continue using it as free. Reaper is NOT free, and it says that very clearly on the Cockos website. It says that very clearly in the program itself. It's $60 (or $225 if you're using it in a high-volume enough studio), which is nothing compared to $700 for Pro Tools.Please, please stop suggesting Reaper as a 'forever free' DAW. How to install david s batch processor mac pro. You may try it in its full form for 60 days to decide if you want to fork out the $60.

As a software developer and musician, this double standard really bugs me. There is another way of looking at this:What could be the unofficial business model for Reaper is that it is in fact forever free to use if you want to, but you can opt to pay for it. In practice a certain percentage of users will pay, and that is their income. If I would run a business this way I would probably not say this out loud, but this may very well be a model that works.It is somewhat comparable to releasing your music for free on Bandcamp, and let people pay if they want. There will be a certain percentage (around 10% in my experience) that will choose to pay.When beginners on this reddit ask for a good and free DAW, then of course Reaper will be recommended, because in practice it is free to use with full functionality.

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I would not consider this bad advice at all. I wasn't disagreeing with either of you. Of course they want people to pay for it. But at they same time there's no way they're naive enough to think everyone who doesn't pay will actually delete it after 60 days.They're making their money off only a certain percentage of their users who either pay for it upfront or somewhere down the line. What that percentage is, I don't know.

I don't know how much more or less profitable this model is. All I can say is that its the reality of the situation. Whether they come out say it or not.I'm not advocating using the software without paying. But I'm also not advocating people being too broke to make music functionally.

The unofficial business model covers this. That's why it's called unofficial. The official policy has to be written a certain way, just so it allows them to exercise some judgement. That way they can operate a certain way 90% of the time, but for the major abusers, they have their asses covered legally. If they find a pro studio using the pirated version for years, of course they're going to enact the policy and sue that studio. If a tiny user pirates it and uses it for 4 years, but writes a handful of songs, they aren't going to care. They just 'overlook' it.

It's not that they don't know (they write the software. They're pretty smart folks). But if they just said 'you can use it as long as you like, and pay us if you want' then they would have much less legal basis to sue. Businesses do this all the time.