This week I came across a new software that turned itself from a $65 shareware to open source, it’s Enso that developed by Humanized. I like what they’ve said in one of their blog posts: It’s the destiny of all software to eventually become free. If you’re in the middle developing a new software, be awared to this statement if you want to develop a software with a price tag in the software industry.

If you’re the first time that heard of Enso, it’s in fact an interface tool that help a user to write commands to her computer, such as open calculator, open internet explorer, open firefox, and etc. It is available on Windows platform and based on a product concept that instead of go through few steps in opening the Windows menu, all you have to do is press the “Caps Lock” key and write your command. Once the command is typed, simply release the Caps Lock and it’s done, the application you intended to open is display on your computer screen.

Some have compared this software tool with Quicksilver, a Mac tool with a similar functionality, but Humanized has insisted Enso was based on the different kind of technologies.