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Google translate picked out a key paragraph here: However, according to Moscow Digital School teacher Oleg Blinov, piracy resolution is not a very effective st
by mmastrac 5y ago
Google translate picked out a key paragraph here:
However, according to Moscow Digital School teacher Oleg Blinov, piracy resolution is not a very effective step: “Today, most of the useful software is made in the form of subscriptions to a cloud product, this allows developers to secure the code that remains on their servers. Without subscriptions and access to a regular service, many tools will stop working.”
- empressplay 5y agoMost software packages have an offline product. All you have to do is check out torrents to see that.
- capableweb 5y agoMost software packages do indeed often have offline-installers and runtimes, but the quote seems to be about SaaS which almost never has offline/self hosted options. It's part of the value of building SaaS in the first place, if source doesn't get leaked, it most likely will never end up on TPB et al.
- antifa 5y agoMost probably have an open source alternative, which could benefit everyone in the world with an army of Russian devs polishing/maintaining. What would be sad is if instead Russia just made Russian SaaSs.
- gattilorenz 5y agoPlus, you risk angering the cloud companies that can decide to terminate all cloud services in Russia. Imagine if tomorrow Azure disappears...
- jurschreuder 5y agoIf you would disable microsoft products you would only help them