[reitanqild]

I think I can kind of understand those users: I like paying for apps but a number of them will still try to abuse me by adding all kinds of monthly payments etc, start adding ads, remove the features I bought it for etc.

I also acknowledge there is a problem where authors should be able to secure an income to do security updates etc and I've no "one-size-fits-all solution" to it but I think between

- feature keys for new features

- optional extra services (support, server side ocr etc)

- reasonable fees for special cases (for example I loved to pay USD 1 a year for a user friendly, secure messaging service that promised not to spam me, datamine my data or leak it voluntarily.)

- etc

there should be room for better alternatives than many of the ones we have today.

[eitland]

> reasonable fees for special cases

Who'd like to pay for a stackoverflow clone without the most annoying stackoverflow rules?

I mean, - a site not focused on curating knowledge but on asking and answering questions?

That answer could of course be: have you looked at this <embed or link>?

But nobody should be punished for asking again and certainly nobody should be punished for answering a duplicate.