[selfhoster11]

> appreciate the software development costs, but £25 for a single node locked license is steep.

Total Commander is 50% more expensive than that. I was going to say that it's worse value because of it, then I realised that not only is it a multi-computer license for the registered user, but that also the past 15-20 years of updates would have been free if I bought it.

That's actually decent. I'm part of the Linux ecosystem for now (so I can't run it other than Wine), but if I was on Windows, I'd likely invest in a license. Considering that it's still being updated for new machines after so long, and retains support all the way back to Windows 95, it's good value for money.

[xpil]

I've been using TC since when NC was a thing. Got a proper license for it some 10 years ago, when I could finally afford it. One of the most irreplaceable bits of software ever (at least for me).