It's not about paying or not paying - if you want to give them money for non-physical goods and/or services, that's entirely your choice. It's about being positive that some outside force isn't going to come along and force your entire workflow to change for what amounts to their whimsy.
No, he's saying you should pay to update to the latest version.
This notion that something you bought 8 years ago needs to continue to work, even though the operating system that it runs on changes, is just not reality.
That's not what I'm getting at. I believe in crystallized design. Once something is fixed, don't go breaking it. If any changes for any reason break something I need, I'm not introducing those changes into my system, because I need it to work, and I need it to work the way it works right now on my setup - not the way some other fool thinks it should work in the future. So yes, I do believe that something I installed 8 years ago, which has worked perfectly for the last 8 years and has become foundational to my workflow, needs to continue working the exact same way it has.
I’m fine with this as long as your device is forcibly removed from the Internet when security fixes aren’t installed, or when it’s out of the period where the vendor provides security patches.
I disagree. I should be allowed to take on the burden of my own security. I don't want an outside force trying to pretend they know my needs better than me. You can produce a product, and I, the user, should have 100% decision on how and for what purpose I will use that product.