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Can you explain to me how a subscription, for which only subscribers get fixes, is not a perverse incentive to ship broken software? Normal software has an arg

• ghaff 7y ago
  Companies seem to be doing a pretty good job of shipping broken software today without the perverse incentive of a subscription. Companies do buy subscriptions for older software even though they may only be getting security fixes at this point. That said, I do think bundling longer-term updates into the cost is better insofar as it means buyers don't get a choice to just use the unpatched software. But it does mean that companies can cut costs by just not patching software at all or for a short period (as today).
  • eropple 7y ago
    > But it does mean that companies can cut costs by just not patching software at all or for a short period (as today). Sure. Hence the use of a very big stick. The lack of restraint on bad actors is a societal problem, not an economic one.
    • ghaff 7y ago
      Of course, it's a big stick for both vendors and users. Vendors need to patch the software for N years (or whatever) and, given a competitive market, users have to pay for it.