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Software companies made no money before subscriptions? How did they last decades?
by mancerayder 4y ago
Software companies made no money before subscriptions? How did they last decades?
- eb0la 4y agoThe sold licenses, and yearly maintenance. The subscription model killed the one-off purchase of licenses. Suddenly if you didn't have a subscription like Red hat did, you had to pay a lot in CAPEx plus maintenance. That meant that even with the same TCO you were out of business.