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...and then lament when you have to pay again for v2. Or when the software falls out of maintenance because there's no cash flow.
by nathancahill 9y ago
...and then lament when you have to pay again for v2. Or when the software falls out of maintenance because there's no cash flow.
- mcphage 9y ago> ...and then lament when you have to pay again for v2. Or not pay for v2 because you still have v1 and it works. Or pay for v2 because it has some new features you'd like.
- teleclimber 9y agoOr be forced to pay for v2 because you upgraded your OS and now v1 doesn't work anymore.
- colecut 9y agoI estimate paying $25 each breaking OS update would be better than paying a subscription, that should be no more than every couple years? Unless the subscription is less than a dollar a month.
- snoman 9y agoOr run it in a VM, or compatibility mode, if I don't want to pay for an update.
- ghrifter 9y agoJust never leave the house, never build anything, never do anything ever.
- ghrifter 9y agoJust never leave the house, never build anything, never do anything ever.
- mistermann 9y agoOr have to abandon your cloud photo archive that you've been happily paying full price for despite not even uploading any new photos because "we don't support Windows Server 2003 any more" (even though everything continues to run perfectly fine). (Crashplan, if you're wondering.)
- pmontra 9y agoOr a new file format for those new features and v1 won't read it. I've seen that years ago ;-) Ok, there isn't a perfect way to pay for software. Developers usually pick the one that suits them better and it can change along the years. The constant is that they need money to cover their expenses.
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- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt sucks either way. Selling software in subscription model encourages shitty business models - like turning what should be an off-line product into a cloud-based service. And that's just a tiny step from analytics and selling user data. Either way, users lose. One-time purchase means probably less software (and less innovation in the space). Subscriptions means more shitty software and user-hostile business models. Still, as it is, the expected lifetime of a piece of software is usually much longer than the expected lifetime of a SaaS business. So if something seems like a tool I might frequently use, I'd much prefer to buy it than to rent it - there's a better chance the company will abandon it or die than that the bit rot will set.