Thread: Would you pay for software updates
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2009-12-05 , 22:06
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Originally Posted by olighak View Post
No.

Not anyone can or will make contributions. Sure you can always get things for free. Then just donīt pay for the paid software.

Iīm a little split on this. Iīd say free upgrades for the next 2-3 product cycles (ie. N770 would get its last update with the release of N900). After that paid ones. Nokia canīt support a device forever, but should be expected to include support for it for 2-3 years initially.
Not everyone can change something in software. But at least everyone can test it and write bug reports. It's a contribution too. And debugging of a complex system is not an easy task.
There are not so many closed components in maemo on support of which we relay on Nokia. Even if Nokia stops support of old devises community can backport new software on them. And this changes then would be available to everyone. And paid support will only lead to piracy. I think it would be more profitable for Nokia to release a new devise when to provide paid support for old ones.