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I'm willing to pay if it's on hacker friendly terms, e.g. something similar to the Sublime Text model: * No sign in/email required * Works offline * No subsc
by shaicoleman 5y ago
I'm willing to pay if it's on hacker friendly terms, e.g. something similar to the Sublime Text model:
* No sign in/email required
* Works offline
* No subscription
* Updates for 3 years included in price
* Perpetual license for older versions
* License per user, unlimited devices and operating systems, including home/work devices
* License is just a matter of copying a file
* No telemetry/phoning home without explicit opt-in
* No DRM/copy protection
* No root access required
* Works on Linux
- simias 5y agoI'm on the same boat, although I have an additional requirement that disqualifies Sublime Text: I want the software to be source-available. Not necessarily FLOSS, but I want to know that if push comes to shove I can hack the code and recompile the software. I don't want to have to rely on the devs if I want to tweak something that's not meant to be configurable, or if I need to run the software on some unsupported configuration and it breaks.
- Spivak 5y agoUnless something external changes the incentives in the market you aren’t gonna see bits in a box return as a business model any time soon. ARR is the only metric that matters to get you funding, it’s way more expensive to support multiple versions than something evergreen, and you can’t really do per-user unlimited device licensing without a login. You can fake it with per user keys but then someone has to have a login to manage them still and your key is now essentially just a login where self-service password resets can’t be done. Why bother when companies clamor for SSO about a billion times more than they ask for anonymous user accounts?
- ilrwbwrkhv 5y agoSublime is special. I don't think anything can come close to it.