I sell a WordPress template online that does quite well. The problem is that someone released an older version into the wild and now it's available for free.<p>I've often thought about releasing a free version in the repo with no customization ability but I'd hate for my sales to suffer.<p>Has anyone out there decided one way then switched to the other and regretted it? Or switched and had a great experience?
Sales will suffer and when people find out that they can get it for free (especially if it's on a site with more juice than you on Google), they will fall off to nothing.<p>Not only that, but the people using it will be your biggest complainers and the cause of many headaches. OSS seems to have created a whole group of users that feel entitled to everything for free.<p>This has happened to me a few times already, so now I stick to pure services/commercial.