Why free software?

Well I did some shareware programs earlier which would have been a greater success

if those would have been free.

It’s also much more fun to have your software available to everyone.

I remember being proud of my self as I found some of the earlier shareware

programs I had made cracked from the Internet.

At least those programs were wanted!

There is also the thing that when you do programming as a hobby you don’t nessessarily

want to have too much responsibilty about them as GPL’ed they are without any warranty.

Also if I get lazy someone else can grap the source code and develop the software further

on and the software continues to “live on” even though I wasn’t continuing the development.

So a bit about me

I am a 42 year old software programmer from Finland and I work at Pinja.

I have been programming since 1989 and I started with Quick Basic. The first computer I had

was a 286 PC whith 8 MB of system memory and 40 MB of hard disk space.

Other languages include Turbo Pascal, C, C++, Delphi, PHP, Java, C# (C Sharp) and the newest is JavaScript/TypeScript.

HTML and XML are not programming languages – they are markup languages so I didn’t mention them above.

For now I’m doing most of the programming with

Previously the “for now” was (in chronological descending order)

The Name VPKSoft comes from my name which is Ville Petteri Kautonen.

So there is only one “employee” at VPKSoft ?

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