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"This document was created with a newer version of Sketch. Please upgrade to the latest version and try again."

I bloody hate this idiotic approach of licensing. I have Sketch 43 and because my license expired, I cannot upgrade to 44 and there is no backward compatibility between versions. Basically Sketch is forcing me to pump up yet another lump of money.

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Think about it from the developer standpoint. I've added a new feature to my files. Either i go give all the old versions support for that new feature (free upgrade) or i say "listen, if you want to use the new stuff, get the latest version. Otherwise, continue to use the working version you have with the working set of features it had when you bought it."

to me this is a totally reasonable thing for developers to do.

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