Good lord-overlords? Where did I say anything like that?
I appreciate the creative work that developers do to help me in mine. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a business aspect to all of this, and these are business matters I’m trying to address.
To reiterate, they involve license transfer and trials. Some do, some don’t. I think all should. I also think quality control could improve across the board, with some obvious exceptions.
Look. The competitive nature of the business has resulted in pricing coming down. That’s good for the consumer. However, if QC also suffers, it’s kind of a wash.
Also, if libraries are released at a furious pace and one buys more of them (with less QC) the gross profits are the same for a company. Instead of buying a $600 library, you buy three $200 libraries-same same.
If companies REALLY wanted to be consumer friendly, they’d address this license transfer/trial period idea. The fact that they don’t says something about their priorities.