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Lifetime fees don't make a lot of sense for products that will likely have rather short obsolescence cycles.
by kromem 3y ago
Lifetime fees don't make a lot of sense for products that will likely have rather short obsolescence cycles.
- Larrikin 3y agoUnless work is paying the cost, getting another subscription for a cloud service and not being able to run the software after some arbitrary period doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I'm willing to pay for updates, I'm tired of every company wanting to turn me into a renter
- theironhammer 3y agoThis rent seeking trend in business is like a cancer.
- fomine3 3y agoCloud computing is a practical idea in theory. What's bad is that big techs start rent seeking thanks to lock-in. It's okay to utilize cloud LLMs unless they start lock-in IMO, though they will.