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It's hard to make money by selling desktop software, period. In 1995 it was a reasonable model, but there's a reason why everyone goes SaaS in 2018. The market
by pcwalton 8y ago
It's hard to make money by selling desktop software, period. In 1995 it was a reasonable model, but there's a reason why everyone goes SaaS in 2018. The market isn't growing, and consumers aren't used to paying for typical desktop software anymore (with Mac a possible exception).
- pjmlp 8y agoAnd SaaS is anything but open source most of the time, specially in the consumer space. We are back to X-Windows applications on dumb terminals, just prettier.