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0 pointsGeekyBear4y ago0 comments

> 100% this... there is a product definition and the free bring your own domain model is not part of the free product definition any more. I'm having trouble understanding how technically literate people are grumpy about this.

People often react badly to bait and switch tactics.

The solution is to offer people a way to revert to a free personal account without losing access to their files, data, and digital goods they have purchased.

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notyourwork4y ago· 1 in thread

How is ten years of free a bait and switch? Free is free and when things are free the giver of free stuff owes you nothing beyond what was already given for free. It may suck but I don't think someone giving out free stuff owes me more?

CRConrad4y ago

> the giver of free stuff owes you nothing beyond what was already given for free.

What they gave away for free included the promise "This will be free forever" (as linked in comments by others here).

> I don't think someone giving out free stuff owes me more?

But this isn't "more" then, is it? It's taking back what was already given.

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