NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go! are all available for download now for free.

If you purchased any of those apps after December 9, 2007 you can get a full refund.

So why did they release all of these applications for free? As Nick and Greg put it, it’s simply a marketing a move to saturate the market more for their other for-pay services.

NetNewsWire has long been my favorite RSS reader and it’s great to see it being made available to even more users.

Oh, and if you didn’t notice, each of those apps also received an update!

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