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Originally posted by krissy-afc
Yeah well it could be a service to use the program

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Nope, it actually can not. You always use and pay for a program as it is, not as it could be.

A service is where you pay people to explicitly do something for you in the future. In this case you have the right to tell and demand the people what to do in a contract. And you do pay them for doing the stuff which is in the contract. If they do not do it, they breach the contract. You actually hire the people.

A software program is something different. Here you pay people for stuff which they already have done in the past. If you don't agree with the stuff they have done, you don't pay for the program but you would also have no right in using it. Unless you own the people (aka they are your own employees), you can not demand them what to do in a next version.

So, even if Plus! becomes payware. You still wouldn't have the right to demand something in a next version. They can listen, true, and it would show custom care, but they are not obligated to do so in any way.

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