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Comment by ninkendo

I think the answers pretty obvious?

A product is free. Then it isn’t free.

You can argue all day whether it’s ok to do this, and I’d absolutely say it’s fine, even laudable that they’re trying to make a real business where you have to pay for a product. Great for them!

But “rug pull” is absolutely still a correct description of what’s happening, because it was free, and now it’s not. Here’s a nice rug, but you have to get off of it by $DATE because we’re going to pull it. It’s a rug pull.

If it wasn’t a rug pull, I’d be able to keep standing on the rug (the free version.)

parent ninkendo 1 year ago

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