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I hate subscriptions as much as the next person but how would you pay for continued development of software? Do you say a person can continue to run version X forever but if they want a new version they pay for it?


> Do you say a person can continue to run version X forever but if they want a new version they pay for it?

I'm not particularly interested in sustaining the financial growth of software companies. I did that for years and I'm done.

But, what you suggest is literally what the software industry did for decades before subscriptions became the norm.




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