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by greenhouse_gas 3097 days ago
It's not that there's too many free apps, it's that upgrades _have to_ be free.

Back in the day, when you bought MyProgramSuite v2, you got v2. You want v3, you pay for it, creating an incentive to develop a better v3, v4, etc.

Now, imagine if anyone who bought Word 1.0, 2.0 automatically got all future upgrades for free. What happens when the market saturates?