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by etothepii 944 days ago
> Why don't you switch to a fully progressive license?

Because the users who pay / use the software as the developer intended are to be rewarded with new features sooner.

> Either you want competition or you don't

Customers want competition. To a first order approximation businesses don't. No one want competition for SEO which is essentially what is being suggested here. If the product can be taken and spun up instantly on any new release all the "competition" is on who can make page 1 of Google. As we have all seen with stack overflow content this is not ideal.