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That is exactly the reason for moving everything to cloud and SaaS: software that is being bought is paid once (when not free), while the one hosted remotely is
by squarefoot 3y ago
That is exactly the reason for moving everything to cloud and SaaS: software that is being bought is paid once (when not free), while the one hosted remotely is paid for use, many times, even if it's free (hosting costs). Doing the same thing with operating systems is just the next iteration. We're slowly going back to the mainframes era: a central server that holds everything surrounded by dumb terminals that can't work without connection to the above server. To me this equals to throwing down the toilet 50 years of IT advancement and open networks culture in the name of profit.
- 2snakes 3y agoIs there an actual technical reason for doing this besides the subscription model success? Better analytics?
- glmdev 3y agoIn _theory_ using a thin-client and booting into a cloud machine means you can "upgrade" your machine in a couple years w/o having to replace the thin-client. Could be easier for grandma, could reduce e-waste, will definitely be used to pigeon-hole us into an endless hell of subscription software.
- sebazzz 3y agoIn practice it means your compute time is being micro-time sliced to the maximum so it will probably perform incredibly bad.
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