> But you had to decide to pay. Many did not. Many did not, when the updates did not provide value. The false belief you seem to rely on here is that if compan

> But you had to decide to pay. Many did not. Many did not, when the updates did not provide value. The false belief you seem to rely on here is that if companies get regular stream of revenue, they'll be compelled to work on updates. Why? They get the revenue anyway, they don't have to work on updates. They can in fact stop completely working on updates, except to match competitors, when their products get popular. But even that's not much of a problem when you have a closed file format, like say Adobe does with PSD.