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RE: The Pitfalls and Fallacies of Attracting People With "Free Stuff!"
Problem? These people were in the market for "free stuff," not in the market for upmarket camping goods.
The crypto world seems very fond of creating situations where developers and founders give away lots of their new tokens ("airdrops") and then act all surprised when the project tanks and few people actually want to buy their tokens.
What brings to my mind the remarkable successful story of the shareware software industry of the past century.
Shareware is an interesting beast in the sense that it tends to be smaller scale and often open-source... and it's pretty common for creator/developers to ask for "donations." It also brings to mind paywalls where you can use this for free three times a day and beyond that you have to buy the "premium edition."
Which is different from freeware which is often riddled with bugs, stolen code, trojans and other annoyances nobody wants to deal with.