Comment by anthk

>Placing software behind paid API's...

- Hello, MSN network.

- Hello, closed memory-dump formats for Microsoft Office.

- You don't play this niche audio/video format? Install this new adware player, and now you will. Oh, enjoy this new adware toolbar.

- Shareware/nagware. Enough said.

- Software patents and codecs. MP3 encoder for streaming? Pay. MPEG encoder/decoder for a custom A/V project? Pay. And so on.