In reply to Tada Burke.

Your points are good Tada. I like cutting through the BS and calling things what they really are.

Not directed at you now Tada....

The problem is that way too many devs of "free" WP stuff have the "it's free so shut up" attitude.

I prefer a plugin/theme either be free or not free. No in between crap.

Put some real effort into your "free" theme/plugin and blow my mind and then I *might* just decide to buy one of your "not free" themes/plugins. Give me one ounce of attitude about it and you get NOTHING from me. I'll use your "free" stuff until it's of no further value to me then I'll move on to the next one.

Having a freemium product just means you aren't smart enough to come up with a real sales funnel to get me to buy into the other "not free" stuff you're doing.

The bitter devs that can't make any money should look up Suzanna Theresa of Instabuilder fame. She has kick-ass stuff and makes a crapload of money by being exceptional at MARKETING. I've given her more money than any other single dev out there. She knows how to marjet the crap out of something, upsell, cross sell and keep you wondering what she's going to promote next.

Blows my mind how so many devs just don't understand.