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oh dear, LittleSnitch wanted to charge money for creating a really handy tool, how terrible.

It’s the charge for upgrades that I don’t like. I bought it once, upgrades should be free. Or so significant that I want to pay.

Considering Apple's constant shifting of goalposts with macOS, what counts as "significant" in your book, even disregarding user-facing features? And how significant is the ~$50 they want for it?

It's just $25 for an upgrade.

I have to roll my eyes at someone who scoffs at a $25 upgrade every few years.

If they're not cool with funding any future development on the product, then they must be cool with not upgrading. But of course they instead entitle themselves to all of your future labor because they once threw some shekels your way.

Now we just need to figure out who pays for those upgrades. I think we could try a scheme where we keep growing the user base so more recent customers pay for the prior customers' upgrades.

Hmm, wait a minute...

sounds nice, i'm in, now i'm get some people under this not-a-pyramid

you only need to pay every 3-5 years aaaaand only if you want to upgrade, aaaaaaand you can keep using your last updated version, aaaand only 50% of the full price

You can't, if you also want to upgrade your OS. v3 doesn't work on High Sierra.

It does: https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/releasenotes3.htm...

yep, they even did some fixes for Yosemite

Show me this universe where programmers don’t have to eat after their 1.0!

It depends... If I'm paying for an update that fixes bugs/issues released in a prior version then I don't expect to pay for that.

If the new version has a lot of new features I would be OK paying for that.

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