I have a few freemacs like this too.
When they work well It's hard to think of them as worth
less than $20, but I agree that that's how the freemarket
works.
Question: when you find a good software package on a >7
year old Mac, is it easy, hard, or completely impossible
to add said software to another Mac that you have.
This assumes a working network for starters.
John A.