Sounds like they try to grab as much money as possible. They also do have paid developers I presume. I think some die-hard fans would not mind sending $9 per year for their beloved Fence. I know I would do for Rainmeter.I'm a big fan of Fences... or at least, I was, until they started the subscription-licensing money-grab nonsense. Sure, you can still get a perpetual license... for an absurd $30.
The best feature to me, and why I'll keep using my old $5 version until it finally stops working, is not the folders and fences really (tho they are nice), it's the fact that it keeps icons and everything else exactly where I put them on a per-screen resolution basis. Between work and home, I dock my laptop into at least 5 different monitors with varying screen resolutions and aspect ratios, and Fences keeps everything in place without me needing to do anything. This feature ought to be built into Windows itself, TBH. I don't know of any other utility that can do what Fences does in this respect.
Between Fences and my own Rainmeter layout auto-switcher, any combination of resolutions/monitors are handled auto-magically.
I am personally averted from anything subscription based. I do have a rent, utilities, and a VPS server, but this really is a "leasing based" scheme - if I don't pay for it then the usage/rent is cut off after few renewal reminders. I did have JSTOR subscription at some point for my history research hobby LOL.
I do send sometimes donations for developers that release software for free and open source, if they accept it.
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