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Making updates is also an ongoing cost. For software as old and complex as mIRC probably a significant one.
by mikl 4y ago
Making updates is also an ongoing cost. For software as old and complex as mIRC probably a significant one.
- cmeacham98 4y agoI'm not asking for the author to write updates if they don't want to. I'm asking that if they do (for whatever reason), that they make their updates available to those who already paid for them (and static file hosting is practically free nowadays).
- mikl 4y ago…and given this choice between continuing to work for free, or abandoning his life’s work, it’s not entirely unreasonable that he decided to go for the option of reneging on the perpetual license mistake, even if that is distasteful. For the people who don’t want to pay for a new license, the outcome is the same as if he just shut mIRC down: no more updates. So from that perspective, they’re no worse off. And the people who are happy to pay another $20, they will be able to continue to enjoy the software.