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Facebook said they'd always be free for everyone, now they offer subscriptions.

Netflix said that they'd never have live TV, or buy a traditional studio, or include ads in their content. Then they did all three.

All companies use principled promises to gain momentum, then drop those principles when the money shows up.

As Groucho Marx used to say: these are my principles, if you don't like them, I have others.