I completely agree (that was one---though not the only one---things that made me stop reading OSNews). But I also think that originally it was free (as you sai

I completely agree (that was one---though not the only one---things that made me stop reading OSNews). But I also think that originally it was free (as you said) but only for a certain number of years. In other words the "novelty" is not that it's free (for those cases) but that it's free forever.