Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use 
> all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you 
> have to *pay* for them.)

  Quite typical. First develop something and offer it for free, and if
it gets popular enough, get greedy and start enforcing your right to
ask money for it. Basically it's not even morally questionable. Of course
it's a slight bummer to all those who got to like the free tools and
cannot get upgrades for free anymore.

  In a few cases it's the other way around: First the products were
commercial, but then they became free of charge (and in even fewer
cases open source).

  A slightly more common variant of the previous is that the products
become free for personal use but remain non-free for commercial use.

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                                                          - Warp

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