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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by mholt on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @10:29AM (#15238602)
I know devs who use Sublime Text almost indefinitely without paying. They don't mind the little "Hey don't forget to buy" popup every once in a while.

We aren't putting popups on your site. :P

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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by tylersmith on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @06:05PM (#15243165)
No, you're injecting data into traffic. That's way worse than a text editor occasionally reminding you you haven't paid.
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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by kbenson on Thursday September 14, 2017 @03:23PM (#15251626)
Really? I don't see it as any different than an unregistered document editor saving "created with an unregistered version of X" in the comment section of saved documents that it edits. Stuff like that has been going on for decades.
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Re:Announcing Caddy Commercial Licenses by kelnos on Saturday September 16, 2017 @02:46AM (#15263300)
Sure. Some people are fine with using free-as-in-beer software if the "cost" of that is the maker gets some free advertising. Some people -- like many in this thread -- are not ok with that. Both positions are perfectly valid.
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