It isn't impossible that the upper left corner note is some form of "ad" that gets rotated. It was there directly after Andy posted his note. I know because I did start to write up a post about the differences between the Freeware, Freemium and Standard versions, but got stuck by the problem of locating the information. I still have that page open in another tab.

Anyway. I think the following is a correct summary of the versions.
Freeware (requires non-profit use - may not earn money and not even save money...)
- 1 sheet
- 100x80mm
- 2 layers
Freemium
- 4 sheets
- 100x80mm
- 4 layers
Standard
- 99 sheets
- 160x100
- 6 layers
Nonprofit
- same as "Standard" but $125 and only for hobbyists

The claim is that the Freemium is almost as good as the Standard edition. A lot of people will probably manage with 4 layers but 100x80 instead of 160x100 is a huge difference for two versions being "almost" as capable. I did evaluate the Freeware version earlier, trying to create a supervisor board for a PC, with a display, beeper, some buttons, a number of temperature sensors, and a couple of regulated fan outputs, but the 100x80 mm of the Freeware version would have required me to stack two boards to fit everything.

By the way - who did vote Richards post as wrong? If claiming a post is wrong, I would very much want the voter to also add a post telling exactly what was wrong. I have only tried the Freeware (not Freemium) version of Eagle - and hated the component library functionality something fiercely - but did not see anything wrong with Richards post.

Edit: I just wanted to add the quote from their web page about Freemium: "It comes close to matching the features of our Standard version."

If by features they just mean "may autorote" etc, then even the Freeware edition fully matches the Standard edition (or so they claim). If by features they mean "capabilities", then I can't really see how 100x80 closely matches 160x100, since even a hobbyist can quickly outgrow the 100x80mm limitation. Mechanical connectors, cooling fins etc quickly gobbles up board space. And if using a PCB service dedicated to hobbyists, like http://www.olimex.com , the cheap orders are for 160x100 single or dual-sided (which means the user have to panel multiple boards), and extra cost for more than 500 holes - so adding a lot of vias to try to make most use of the area increases the production cost.