In reply to Nate Wright.

There is no way to make any form of "blanket" statement without adding in exceptions and caveats, of course. I'm merely commenting on what I regularly see as the current norms. The current norms I see are people using their "free" product as little more than a ticket into the repositories in order to upsell their users on better versions of said product. I'm against that. If you're not doing that, then more power to you. But many are doing exactly that sort of thing, and it's obvious, and I think it sucks. That's all I'm saying. :)