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If shareware prices double in 2010, can you still afford to upgrade?

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Innuendo:
Unless a program is 'knock-it-out-of-the-park' good I only buy if there's a lifetime license attached to the price. I'm sure sooner or later one of my lifetime licenses will be 'revoked' because the author just decided to rename his program to get out from under the license agreement, but it hasn't happened yet.
:: knock wood ::

zridling:
If I were a shareware author in this economy, I might try the opposite tack and cut prices in half throughout 2010 and try to snag new users. A measurable percentage would extend their licenses to the next [2011] upgrade I'm sure. Codeweavers gave away 650,000 copies of their Crossover app last year, and have timed it perfectly with all the OS updates in October and November.

I am already picky on the applications I buy. But I will buy an application if it does the job and it does it well.-Josh (November 06, 2009, 04:05 AM)
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No argument there.

I use both Windows and Linux on a daily basis and just received an email from Ultra Edit for their UEX (Ultra Edit for Linux) software. I already own a lifetime license for the Windows editor and was shocked to see that the cost for a lifetime license for UEX was $179.95. This has left me to make a decision of using regular gedit (which does most of what I need), or to fork out a lot of money for a product I have grown comfortable with for over 10 years. Given today's economy, this is not a simple decision anymore. ~Chris -cjseymour (November 06, 2009, 08:33 AM)
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Love UltraEdit and used it for a number of years. Glad to hear they finally released the long-promised Linux version, wow! But at $180, they won't find many takers. $50/year or $40/year if you already own a license. That's not good considering that Gnome's gEdit is built like Firefox and has tons of add-ons to customize it however you need, and I use KDE's highly configurable Kate text editor. I don't spend nearly as much time in an editor as I used to, so I can't imagine have $180 -- or $50 each year -- to spend on just one app today, given several cloud options. Still, this is only one of two apps I'd want native to Linux (NewsLeecher being the other), and I might have to give it a shot.

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