… This practice of shipping bug-ridden, unfinished software products is common among MANY software firms these days… they put out an unfinished/buggy product, patch it a few times for “free”, then force users to purchase yet another “upgrade” to get any future fixes/improvements regardless of how strong the case is that there are still substantial bugs in the product you PAID for! …
http://suretalent.blogspot.com/2011/10/embarcadero-delphi-xe2-firemonkey.html
This is referring to Delphi XE2, but I recently experienced being forced to pay for what should have been just an interim upgrade with Parallels for the Mac.