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    8 days ago

    Reverse question: would you maintain a program that you wrote 11 years ago if it wasn’t making you money?

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      8 days ago

      No, but I also don’t expect that as a user. It is also fine if the developer makes version 2.0 and I can decide to buy the new version or not. Before the internet this was pretty much how it worked, a new version came on a new floppy or disc you’d buy in a store.

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        8 days ago

        Then again, application software wasn’t cheap. Given inflation, would you pay a thousand bucks for a lifetime license of a piece of software that didn’t get any updates ever?

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        7 days ago

        Open source, I assume? Extremely laudable and I hope you don’t have to make big financial compromises for that.

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          Yes, and I feel pretty privileged that I can make a living with stuff like that instead of making money for some heartless corporation that doesn’t ultimately care about anything except for money.