That's one of the reasons, to curb piracy. However the bigger is that they need a recurring revenue, because programmers need to be fed while they're working on a release and bringing a new one from the wild is expensive and takes time to get meaningful code from them.
That's one of the reasons, to curb piracy. However the bigger is that they need a recurring revenue, because programmers need to be fed while they're working on a release and bringing a new one from the wild is expensive and takes time to get meaningful code from them.