If you purchase before Dec 20 you will get ALL future updates for free. Buy At: http://www.minecraft.net/ "We will also change the license to remove the line that promises all future versions of the game for free. Please note that this change only affects people who buy the game after December 20, so if you got the game for during alpha, you will still get all future updates for free, despite this change. A promise is a promise. Buying the game during beta will include all updates up until release, of course, and bug patches will be free."
That's not how I read it. Feature patches are not free. Bug patches are. "and bug patches will be free"
Buying the game during beta will include all updates up until release, of course, and bug patches will be free."
We bought it during Alpha. We get all updates, feature and bug related, till Notch stops working on Minecraft.