NetNewsWire (and other NewsGator apps) are now free

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NewsGator, maker of NetNewsWire and other fine apps, have made all of their non-commercial products free as of today.

NetNewsWire is probably the premier RSS feedreader on the Mac, giving users a Mail-like interface and the ability to manage as many compliant feeds as they wish.

In a post on his blog, developer Brent Simmons says:

By free I mean both that we’ve released it from its cage and that it costs no money. Zero dollars.

Upgrades are free. It’s free for new users. It’s freeware.

You can download it right away. Here are the change notes.

NetNewsWire is not alone—we’ve also made FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! free.

Why go free? Nick Bradbury and Greg Reinacker explain it better than I would, but it boils down to this: the software is great marketing for our enterprise software; and the more users we have, the better able we are to calculate relevance and importance.

I dream of being able to make it so you spend less time reading stuff you don’t care about—I want the important news to go right to the top.

Oh, and did I mention that NNW integrates with the fantastic (and our new sponsor) 1Password? Because, yeah, it does that too…