{"id":1203,"date":"2006-02-13T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/lifetime-free-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:44:35","slug":"lifetime-free-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/lifetime-free-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime Free Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unsanity.org\/archives\/000448.php\">Slava Karpenko<\/a> advises developers not to offer them, and:\n<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.unsanity.org\/archives\/000448.php\">\n<p>\nIf you&rsquo;re a user, sure, free upgrades for life sound great, but come to think of it&mdash;if a certain software title promises you that, expect the maker to exit the business or abandon that particular product sooner or later. They simply can&rsquo;t support themselves and justify adding features when they know they will never get that additional cash in. So why bother making a 2.0 if you know all the hundreds of hours of your hard work are going to be not paid off? I know too many examples of that to count.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>\nIt&rsquo;s true. I don&rsquo;t like it when I&rsquo;m asked to upgrade every few months or even once a year, but on the other hand if a product claims to include free upgrades <em>forever<\/em> I also tend to stay away. My own products have gotten <em>lots<\/em> of free updates since they were introduced. The 2.0 upgrades were free as a thank-you to the early adopters and because it hadn&rsquo;t been that long since 1.0. The 3.0 versions will be paid upgrades, however I plan to be very generous about giving free upgrades to people who bought 2.x recently. The month or two that developers often go back isn&rsquo;t enough, in my opinion. But the 15 or so months that the Path Finder folks used is too much, except in that case&mdash;they were keeping a specific promise. I think the right number is somewhere between six months and a year.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slava Karpenko advises developers not to offer them, and: If you&rsquo;re a user, sure, free upgrades for life sound great, but come to think of it&mdash;if a certain software title promises you that, expect the maker to exit the business or abandon that particular product sooner or later. They simply can&rsquo;t support themselves and justify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-12-11T20:44:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"12717840-e8a8-4e90-9bf1-a4616de3c6f2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-12-11T20:44:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AEnF4QOioTpCb8aRhbePG8g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-1203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-pathfinder"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30985,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203\/revisions\/30985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}