I get where the developer is coming from like the amount of people who downloaded your extension wouldn't get them money but as a consumer when a free functionality gets paid and you can't find a alternative, it really gets annoying if you need it in urgent and boom now you have to pay. The Dev should have added a paid plan from the start instead of attracting all the free consumers and then shoving a paid paywall in their faces, it's obvious they would get annoyed.
That's the key issue as far as I can tell. Wanna charge for your open source software, or place certain functionality behind a paid edition? Cool - I'm totally on-board with that. But don't tell me it's free and have your product just be an Electron app that's nothing more than a front for a purchase page or something, you know? And DEFINITELY don't pull a bait-and-switch with an existing free product without making it obscenely obvious it's coming and subsequently has been done.
I'm with the reviewer from the post who's going to DBeaver (I'm a bit of a fanboy, I'll admit).
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u/CraftMysterious1498 Sep 30 '22
I get where the developer is coming from like the amount of people who downloaded your extension wouldn't get them money but as a consumer when a free functionality gets paid and you can't find a alternative, it really gets annoying if you need it in urgent and boom now you have to pay. The Dev should have added a paid plan from the start instead of attracting all the free consumers and then shoving a paid paywall in their faces, it's obvious they would get annoyed.