Re:Dude, where's my shares? (Score 1)

Hmm... Well, if a company provides a free firmware upgrade to a product I own, and the upgrade fixes bugs and adds features, who am I to complain. I don't think this is evil, I think this is great. Take, for example, the proteus 2000 that I bought a few years ago. Emu systems has provided a few OS releases that have enhanced functionality and bug fixes for free. All I needed to do was download the patch and run it on my PC. I guess the key here is to make it easy to upgrade. I would be a bit pissed if all my presets were erased by the upgrade. But I think the market handles this quite well. If a product sucks, people won't buy it.