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I've just been wondering if there are any plans for changing current licensing policy? All main competition like Mailbird or Postbox Inc. recently moved their licensing to lifetime models - you pay once and all future upgrades (no matter what version) you get lifetime for free. For me as a user and client, these programs are getting advantage over TB! - first that these are complete solution (plugins support, anti-spam etc. included), and now licensing policy is more than reasonable.
Edited: Marek K. ZBOROWSKI - 21 September 2016 08:07:56
 
 
 
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I'd be suspicious if a software company that never had lifetime licenses now suddenly offers them. The problem is that years from now, when the income from those licenses has long been spent, those users are still going to demand support and upgrades. Ritlabs' policy (upgrades at a discount) is reasonable and, in the end, better for them AND their users.
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You must be kidding. TB!s upgrades in fact do NOT mean major upgrades to me, but only minor updates and this is what you pay 75% of regular price. Frankly, there's no major changes in posterior versions of TB! like modern interface or any additional options like internal implementation of PGP, fully functional calendar or even antispam option justifying next payment - it is much more like security updates and bug fixing, but why pay for it? After all those years of development TB! should be very close to perfect email client and should become kinda industrial standard. Is it in your opinion? Does it succeed? Sorry to say but in my mind it does not. I would say its quality is frozen somewhere in between Windows 2000 and Windows XP and that's really bad cus I love this app.
Edited: Marek K. ZBOROWSKI - 22 September 2016 21:12:53
 
 
 
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So? If you don't like the upgrades, you don't buy them.

Apparently you believe that Ritlabs will be more motivated to deliver new features if they don't get paid for them. That's a strange kind of logic.
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This is very logic. New features = new clients, new clients = more money.  Is there any better way of motivation?  In this model stagnation means hunger. What kind of enhancements do you see in TB! for last few years? I can see only some improvements of stuff that should work perfectly for years, but still are buggy as hell. This is how current licensing policy leads to lack of innovations. Actually, after 19 years of unchanged developing TB! I would even shortly call it a warp.
Edited: Marek K. ZBOROWSKI - 23 September 2016 21:45:11
 
 
 
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