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by phrom 4y ago
Yeah, I keep notes on org files in local disk and access them through Emacs. I have no need for SaaS to take notes. There's probably nothing an alternative could offer to pull me away from Emacs, even to a different desktop app. But th
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by phrom 4y ago
Oh, I don't mind it either. It's not like they're stopping to sell paper copies. I used it a long time ago, my employer had a company account, it was great.
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by phrom 4y ago
At least my lament is not so much that it is naked profit seeking, but that it is naked profit seeking that warps the product. In the example of games, that additional revenue stream of day 1 DLC means content being arbitrarily cut off from
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by phrom 4y ago
They already got the idea. Look up the "O'Reilly Learning Platform"
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by phrom 4y ago
You are making a subjective judgement on what a modern note taking app or password manager should be like. They could be developed as local desktop apps, just like the office and image editing programs are. Personally, my notes are not goin
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by phrom 4y ago
Look at what Jetbrains does. When you complete a 1 year subscription, you get a permanent license to a version of the software you're subscribed to, that is 1 year older than the latest. It is at the same time a subscription to the lat
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by phrom 4y ago
Enough people have paid attention that I am able to use Emacs and be insulated from any practical impact from SaaS, since it can handle everything I need as a developer. In fact, I have my passwords and my notes on it, to mention some thing
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by phrom 4y ago
I agree with the micromanagement, but I don't see how subscription costs are less flexible than a buy once model. You can choose to have a single price, or multiple price points, in either payment model.
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by phrom 4y ago
I love seeing how many people mention Jetbrains as a good example of a subscription model when this topic comes up. I agree. But I think the reason it is good is that a yearly subscription to one of their products can also be seen as a one
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by phrom 4y ago
If revenue is not attached to feature planning, how are users going to influence what features get developed?
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by phrom 4y ago
True, because of how necessary OS updates / security fixes are, sooner or later you're forced to upgrade, even on a "buy once" model. But in that model, at least there was still a chance of an effective user boycott. Whe
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by phrom 4y ago
Those old games still run on the old operating systems, and you can still get those systems because they were also on a buy once model. If those old games were subscriptions instead, they would probably be unplayable today. Their authentica
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by phrom 4y ago
Funny you mention Windows and Office. Office is getting worse while moving to a subscription model, while Windows is getting worse by moving towards ads.
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by phrom 4y ago
A subscription model takes away the user's option to install the software they bought inside of a VM disconnected from the internet, where that software would likely remain runnable to the end of time, regardless of the software compan
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by phrom 4y ago
You don't have to agonize over paying for major upgrades because you're being made to always pay, whether you get an upgrade or not. It's a nice bonus when you get an upgrade for your payments. But other times you're an
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by phrom 4y ago
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