Hey Scott,Image-Line wrote:For whatever reasons, we have shown that there is no need to ask customers to pay for program updates, we feel good about that. Apologies if it comes across as disingenuous. There really is a lot of internal satisfaction here giving FL Studio away to our loyal customer base.
Regards Scott
Not at all. I was only saying that the perception from saying that directly could be taken the wrong way, that's all. Not that your were being disingenuous, but that someone could easily perceive it that way.
That's a door that companies usually don't open directly, they let their users do it for them. When you do open that door directly you kinda have to expect visitors coming into it, asking similar questions in return, re: the Reaper license example I gave... so it was kind of unusual (for me, mmv) to hear that directly from a company phrased that way as a question to their competitors.
If I asked "Why can't all companies remove any expiration and have unlimited demos that never functionally expire, like Cockos has proved works (for them)?" Not really a fair question imo, but users ask it all the time making the same point, but that maybe wouldn't work so well for Imageline or Avid or Cakewalk... even though it works really well for Cockos.
Every business (and every product) is different.
Anyway, if my observation there offended you in any way please accept my apology. Not my intent. The Internet is often not the best communication medium.
Whatever you do, don't get pissed at me and stop the free updates.
I'd have to go into hiding like Salman Rushdie. 
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