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In modern times, that statement still holds. In the sense that you don't risk losing everything if the company providing the software (often as service) goes u
by bserge 6y ago
In modern times, that statement still holds.
In the sense that you don't risk losing everything if the company providing the software (often as service) goes under, stops development or simply decides to "pivot" their product into something else.
You can build, maintain and host it all yourself.
- new_realist 6y agoIf the service is at all useful, some other provider will enter to fill the void. You should never trust any service which doesn’t allow you to download your data, OSS-backed or not.
- xkcd-sucks 6y ago"The market can remain irrational longer than your runway"
- pkamb 6y agoDealing with this now with SourceTree. Development is completely dead. I don't want to use a new tool. I just want to fix a couple bugs. I'd do it myself if the application were open source...