The subscription thing is key, although maybe a generational thing. I would happily pay a flat $60-100 for each major version upgrade I choose to adopt, but I won't just give them a direct monthly tap into my bank account.

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godelski 6 hours ago | parent [-]

So do you donate that amount every major release?

	▲	rkomorn 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think asking people if they're one of a small of handful people donating into the void to a is a straw man.
	▲	swiftcoder 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's purely a theoretical, since nobody has offered me a choice of that model - either I'm a source of ad revenue whether I want to be or not (Chrome, FireFox, Safari), or I'm in a captive ecosystem where I'm already paying a premium (Safari, Chrome for android)