Sad that we are not paying for software nowadays. Look at the consequences!
I have no problem donating to free software projects, but one should not be required to provide payment to access information of any kind, be it software, movies, music, or any other kind of data.
I would just add that $14.99 is still a very fair price and it enables the developer (lexaloffle) to work on other cool stuff like voxatron, picotron, etc.