(November 14, 2014 at 10:09 pm)Napoléon Wrote:OK, thought I'd give you a shot.(November 14, 2014 at 3:20 pm)alpha male Wrote: NSS. Care to actually give the definitions?
No not really.
A company allows a free download of a product, and asks you to pay for it if you like it.
You say these payments would be donations, not sales.
The difference that I see is that, in a sale, the person does not get the product until they pay. In this scenario, the person already has the product before they pay. You are therefore calling it a donation rather than a sale, and conceding that "Obviously this would result in lost sales, because they wouldn't be making sales at all."
By that logic, anyone who pirates a product to try it out, then subsequently pays for it, is likewise making a donation, and sales are lost.