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Nobody outside the developer community will ever pay for any software on a recurring basis, especially if free alternatives are available.
by rogerchucker 14y ago
Nobody outside the developer community will ever pay for any software on a recurring basis, especially if free alternatives are available.
- kenjackson 14y agoSlySoft does a good of this.
- awicklander 14y agoThis is false. Non-developers pay a recurring fee for software all the time.
- keithpeter 14y agoEastgate systems publish Storyspace and Tinderbox. Tinderbox is sold with 'a year of free upgrades', and after that there is an upgrade fee. Sort of subscription based.
- gwillen 14y agohttp://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/buying-guide-subscriptions.html http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/buying-guide-subscri...
- ams6110 14y agoPretty much every software product sold to business is on a "initial purchase + maintenance agreement" basis, i.e. you pay up front and they you pay monthly or annually to keep your license and/or support current.
- MisterBastahrd 14y agoEver heard of a small company called Adobe? How about Autodesk? Or how about every antivirus company on the planet? They might all not have an explicitly recurring revenue stream, but the updates to the software damned near mandate the purchase of a new license to prevent problems with incompatibility.