It would be nice to not have to pay an absolute arm a a leg for these kinds of tools… but perhaps that’s what they cost… we saw what happened to VSR… Xnurbs is probably next… (but once again, I wouldn’t mind a bit of price increase).
Nobody from McNeel, not even Mr. McNeel himself ever said this to me or anywhere I’ve looked, but I have the impression that they are trying to follow the semiconductor manufacturers’ model of maintaining a price point, or set of price points, and improving the available performance with each succeeding generation as time goes on.
So far, so good. I hope they can keep it up; maybe even attain a price reduction if the opportunity presents itself - say through tremendous market growth and user acceptance that increases revenue through volume. My big worry is that as the founders age into retirement company strategies and policies will change as new executives have “really great ideas” for changing something that ain’t broke. Or even worse: they decide to cash in by selling to some organization that decides to milk it as a cash cow or disappear it because it’s giving too much competition to their own substandard product.
I think I read that Blender was the first software that someone managed to buy back from investors (with the help of crowdfunding)… maybe Rhino some day in the future will be a good candidate for becoming the second?
Who would you buy it back from, Bob?
Mcneel is privately held…there are no “investors” to buy it from.
I was replying to the future hypothetical by @AIW. Not sure why discourse fails to show the post you are replying to at times…
(EDIT: like, just now.) 
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Hi Robert -
When you reply to a specific sentence in a post, you can select that sentence and quote it. When replying to an entire specific post, make sure to hit the “correct” Reply button:
The one is blue is a general reply to the topic, the one in gray will (should?) indicate which post is being replied to.
-wim