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Software comes in two flavors, platform and end user. Platform software is usually free and only monetized via service contracts. Platform software is rarely us
by dexwiz 5y ago
Software comes in two flavors, platform and end user. Platform software is usually free and only monetized via service contracts. Platform software is rarely used directly and instead is used to build other software. End user software is either subscription based or ad based now. Very few people buy end user software now as a single item.
As a developer you see the platform software, and that is causing the dissonance.
- voussoir 5y agoThanks for your reply. But one reason the linked thread affected me so much is because many of the replies were not subscription or ad-based. Ad-based software does not impress me in the slightest. Many of them were B2B which I realize is a market more willing to spend than home users, but plenty of replies sounded like they refer to perpetual licenses sold to normal people. > As a developer you see the platform software Yes, that does account for linux / sqlite, but I'm also an end user of dozens / hundreds of applications, none of which I've paid for. At this point almost all of the software I install is free and open source on both desktop and mobile.