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While this is still possible (usually) when buying physical goods, it is getting to be nearly impossible for software. Good luck buying professional grade graph

While this is still possible (usually) when buying physical goods, it is getting to be nearly impossible for software. Good luck buying professional grade graphics or video editing software without getting signing away any agency over the software. In fact, depending on how you view "intellectual property" laws, anything that isn't public domain could be considered a "grafted on service"

jacquesm 9y ago
Like with the various hardware bits that I use this would probably cause me to get stuck in the past at some point in time. Fortunately for me my tools are free (text editor, compiler) but I can see that in some professions you are now forced into buying a subscription for software where you'd much rather just pay for a license and the occasional update. Congratulations at becoming a dairy cow, even so this article was about IoT and there most services feel grafted on without any kind of improved functionality, in the case of software-by-subscription (which I think is a fairer name that software-as-a-service) one could argue that the distribution model has changed but the functionality is roughly what you pay for. Not that there aren't obvious drawbacks to software 'in the cloud'.