>In my experience a price break on purchasing a new version shortly after buying the previous version of software is fairly commonplace.
Agreed, an "upgrade" price break is very common, and plenty of free minor upgrades are available, but not usually a "free" new copy of a major version. I've never seen anything like that, anyway. People are generally in business to make more money, not find ways to lose money :-)
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.