I've been hearing about this for a while from friends and through the grapevine but couldnt ever really find anything about it on the web to point you guys to. Back when Mac OSX came out it touted a few features that werent quite ready (DVD playback, etc) which was promised later in the 10.1 patch. It just recently got interesting though...(Thanks Zoid)

First of all, Steve Jobs introduced Mac OS X 10.1 during the MACWORLD Expo New York keynote last month. Mr. Jobs called it a free upgrade, and said that we would be able to get that update on CD for US$19.95. I wasn't worried at the time, because it was obvious that getting the CDs were going to be an *option*. [snip]

Allegedly according to Apple, due to the size of the patch (over 600megs!) They have decided the patch that was announced as free, and includes features that were promised in the original OS and not delivered... will no longer be free. They are going to want $20 a pop for the 10.1 upgrade of their OS. Remember those commercials? You Mac guys remember that speech where OS10.1 was announced as a free upgrade? We've got a Mac with OSX and a DVD player sitting here at the apartment... guess we're gonna have to pay another $20 huh?