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This is the so called "enshittification" that's happening market wide. Vendor lock in sucks -- regardless whether it's Amazon, AWS, Apple or 1Password. The on

by bb88 3y ago

This is the so called "enshittification" that's happening market wide. Vendor lock in sucks -- regardless whether it's Amazon, AWS, Apple or 1Password. The only real solution is to take your money and go elsewhere. Stop buying Apple products, say. Hell, I've even experienced vendor lock-in on FOSS products when the program crippled something I needed to use, or refused to fix an issue that caused me hours of tedious work-arounds. Or they decided to go closed source and go to a subscription model. (Their choice, but I'm not using it).

duffyjp 3y ago
There's definitely a trend of FOSS products and older trivially priced products being bought up by companies that re-release in subscription models. So frustrating. I always get recommendations on the Play Store for World of Goo, an amazing game from 2008 that you can now only play if you're a Netflix subscriber. The 1.7 star rating has convinced no suits that that might not be what people what. On iPhone I used to use Frame Grabber all the time. It was free and the full source on GitHub. They sold the rights to a company who now charges $20/year for the same thing. No ill will to the original developer, but jeeze. $20 to get a slightly better quality frame from a video vs just screenshotting your phone? No thanks.
- bb88 3y ago
  This sucks. I honestly think that software should have a 25 year copyright at most, and the source code should be released after copyright expires. So windows 95 source code would have been released in 2020.
  - bruce511 3y ago
    Wouldn't help you. Source code without the tools, and environment to build it is useless. Plus, source code from some random thing from 25 years ago is usually lost. Certainly I don't have source code for a bunch of things I wrote 25 years ago. And for the things I do have, good luck finding a machine that'll read my floppy disks.

by bb88 3y ago

duffyjp 3y ago

There's definitely a trend of FOSS products and older trivially priced products being bought up by companies that re-release in subscription models. So frustrating. I always get recommendations on the Play Store for World of Goo, an amazing game from 2008 that you can now only play if you're a Netflix subscriber. The 1.7 star rating has convinced no suits that that might not be what people what. On iPhone I used to use Frame Grabber all the time. It was free and the full source on GitHub. They sold the rights to a company who now charges $20/year for the same thing. No ill will to the original developer, but jeeze. $20 to get a slightly better quality frame from a video vs just screenshotting your phone? No thanks.

bb88 3y ago
This sucks. I honestly think that software should have a 25 year copyright at most, and the source code should be released after copyright expires. So windows 95 source code would have been released in 2020.
- bruce511 3y ago
  Wouldn't help you. Source code without the tools, and environment to build it is useless. Plus, source code from some random thing from 25 years ago is usually lost. Certainly I don't have source code for a bunch of things I wrote 25 years ago. And for the things I do have, good luck finding a machine that'll read my floppy disks.