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by m52go 2586 days ago
I personally don't think this utility is worth the asking price for my use case but as a developer struggling to monetize my own projects, I respect that this developer is bold enough to ask for money at all.

What I don't like...actually what drives me totally crazy, is this:

> Buy once, upgrade for free forever!

This is not sustainable. In some ways it's even worse than free. I really wish people would stop proposing this pricing model for software. Software is never done, and a pay-once model is totally inappropriate.

Most insidiously, it gives consumers the wrong impression of software maintenance and makes it exponentially harder for other developers to implement more appropriate pricing models.