You are one of the Russian authors, right?! If so, why not state it?
If not, I’m sorry for speculating but that’s due to the company’s insufficient communication policy (cf. their website).

What you are right in is that firstly, according to the GOTD principles, the programs given away provide neither updates nor support, and secondly exactly that was told in the Readme.txt file being part of the download on 03/24/08.

Wrong though IMHO is the conclusion you draw from these two parameters as you seem to neglect the perspective of an average GOTD visitor.

A. The GOTD principles in the first place are aimed at the cooperating companies to protect them from legal claims made by GOTD downloaders which otherwise would be possible since the software given away is commercial. Hence, companies aren’t compelled to make use of that protection but instead are free to in one case or another offer some kind of perk which may be considered as an additional valuable promotion for the benefit of both the GOTD user and the offering company.

In other words: GOTD has got principles and exceptions thereof as well! That’s why a couple of times we had companies who offered 1-year and more upgrade/update licences, recently Emsi a².

B. The final paragraph in the Readme.txt file you are referring to has been, as far as I remember, exactly the same since GOTD started on October 24th 2006. There has always been the three disclaimers of 1) No free technical support, 2) No free upgrades to future versions, 3) Strictly non-commercial usage.
That is to say, it’s merely a standard text which almost certainly isn’t going ever to be edited. Therefore the average visitor doesn’t expect GOTD to waste 3 seconds on an extra check of that final part (Terms and conditions).

C. Whilst the Readme.txt as usual contained on March 24th 2008, too, the aforesaid threefold disclaimer, it can be no doubt that the About screen in the installed program itself shows “1 Year Free Upgrades”. So, we have a conflict.
The question now has to be, how should a GOTD visitor resolve this conflict since the statements “No free upgrades” and “1 Year Free Upgrades” are diametrically inconsistent with one another?
Well, in the end it’s not that difficult, I think. As there was a conflict between a principle and an exception of that same principle, the average GOTD visitor had to rate the probability of the exception to be intended as valid commitment higher than the principle because the latter had formally always been unaltered though overruled previously a couple of times by some kind of perk made by the company.

To cut it off, if something has been “clear like water” as you, Seijuska, like to say, then it was that a commitment shown in the program itself which had been valid through various times overrides a standard text file.

What you are right in is that firstly, according to the GOTD principles, the programs given away provide neither updates nor support, and secondly exactly that was told in the Readme.txt file being part of the download on 03/24/08.
Wrong though IMHO is the conclusion you draw from these two parameters as you seem to neglect the perspective of an average GOTD visitor.

A. The GOTD principles in the first place are aimed at the cooperating companies to protect them from legal claims made by GOTD downloaders which otherwise would be possible since the software given away is commercial. Hence, companies aren’t compelled to make use of that protection but instead are free to in one case or another offer some kind of perk which may be considered as an additional valuable promotion for the benefit of both the GOTD user and the offering company.

In other words: GOTD has got principles and exceptions thereof as well! That’s why a couple of times we had companies who offered 1-year and more upgrade/update licences, recently Emsi a².

B. The final paragraph in the Readme.txt file you are referring to has been, as far as I remember, exactly the same since GOTD started on October 24th 2006. There has always been the three disclaimers of 1) No free technical support, 2) No free upgrades to future versions, 3) Strictly non-commercial usage.
That is to say, it’s merely a standard text which almost certainly isn’t going ever to be edited. Therefore the average visitor doesn’t expect GOTD to waste 3 seconds on an extra check of that final part (Terms and conditions).

C. Whilst the Readme.txt as usual contained on March 24th 2008, too, the aforesaid threefold disclaimer, it can be no doubt that the About screen in the installed program itself shows “1 Year Free Upgrades”. So, we have a conflict.
The question now has to be, how should a GOTD visitor resolve this conflict since the statements “No free upgrades” and “1 Year Free Upgrades” are diametrically inconsistent with one another?
Well, in the end it’s not that difficult, I think. As there was a conflict between a principle and an exception of that same principle, the average GOTD visitor had to rate the probability of the exception to be intended as valid commitment higher than the principle because the latter had formally always been unaltered though overruled previously a couple of times by some kind of perk made by the company.

To cut it off, if something has been “clear like water” as you, Seijuska, like to say, then it was that a commitment shown in the program itself which had been valid through various times overrides a standard text file.

Still prefer ImgBurn, because it has more advanced options, but for those of you who want a simple burning program, this app is great.

The problem is:
You have to first download, install and run a program before you can decide whether you like it or not.