This is why the large commercial operation keeps updating their stuff with plenty of useless nonsense or unnecessary look lifting (looking at you Apple). The p

This is why the large commercial operation keeps updating their stuff with plenty of useless nonsense or unnecessary look lifting (looking at you Apple). The problem is that we mostly don't have a correct mechanism to price software in a way that would be fair to both the developer and users. For example, even if you calculate exactly what it costs to build a particular piece of software (all the devs salaries, plus all the office costs plus all the infrastructure costs) and you arrive at a particular number. How do you divide that number for customer? The more there are the cheaper, but also if it became "free" after everything has been paid (because the marginal cost of copy is effectively zero) it looks like a better strategy to let others front the money. It's like plenty of things in life, if people were honest things would be very easy but since they aren't we need to have suboptimal systems in place...