Warp wrote:
> 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.

Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what 
the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool 
for diagnosing DNS faults.

>   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).

Mozilla?

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

Yes, that too...

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