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But is "buy once, upgrade forever" really a viable long term business model?

• samhw 5y ago
  I dunno, but you ought to figure it out (for your business) before you make that offer!
  • skinnymuch 5y ago
    Why? 1PW is succeeding. They didn’t do some huge moral quandary either that would make stopping the one time buying product a moral failing. People like the first commenter and myself have used 1PW for many years too and are fine with what has gone down. Vs a clear moral screw up like the big tech companies colluding to not hire one another’s employees.
    • samhw 5y ago
      If they said "buy once, get upgrades forever" and didn't provide that, then yeah, that's definitely a very plain example of immoral dealing. The future service is exactly what the purchasers were buying - not a nice-to-have add-on.
• deadbunny 5y ago
  Seemed to work for a lot software before SaaS ate the world. But who wants viable when you can bleed you customers for 10-1000x the would have paid for the software once? /s