As effort will be meant time needed to produce it. Price of software will be considered as market value of product, which was set by its producer. An argument, that price should be fairly and objectively related to effort, will be established. On new, highly changeable software market obviousness of this statement is questioned. Recently there were some unfair practices discovered on those markets.
Programmer writes a software product that is one thousand lines long, for example.
Businessman, who wants to make a profit, not a loss, might multiply value of programmer's work by 200 and might try to sell the product with such a price. In this article it will be considered whether such practice is legal or does it break rules of free market. Impact of such practices on enterprise standing, computing branch outcomes or finally on national gross product will be discussed. Ethical aspects of such software producer's attitude will be also taken into consideration. There start some moral dilemma rather from business than from computing ground.