Can we return to purchasing software instead of subscribing to it?
I don't believe it will happen with popular software. Your best option is to vote with your wallet or use a FLOSS-based solution, provided it meets your needs.
Can we return to purchasing software instead of subscribing to it?
I don't believe it will happen with popular software. Your best option is to vote with your wallet or use a FLOSS-based solution, provided it meets your needs.
@nixCraft interesting how the cover depicts someone gazing toward a yacht on the horizon 😁
@nixCraft just pirate it problem solved
@nixCraft Check out appsumo.com
@nixCraft what is a floss based solution?
@nixCraft No. No ownership for you. Rent or die.
@nixCraft PS7 was the last light weight version of Photoshop. Still great even today. Subscription based stuff should be for services, not software, unless the software IS a service... If that makes sense?
@nixCraft @bazcurtis Unfortunately usually enough people will pay for the subscriptions to be profitable. And it does make a difference if it’s an indie developer trying to make an app sustainable vs. a mega corporation squeezing more $$$ out of their customers.
@nixCraft I still can't understand why people are, as a whole, just so wishy washy that they actually allow companies to do this stuff. The whole basis of capitalism supposedly being a thing that supposedly works is that when faced with crap that is bad, the markets would put their collective foot down and refuse to buy. Instead companies like Adobe develop a stranglehold and people just go along with it grudgingly.
GIMP seems the most reasonable, but still lacks a lot of polish.
@nixCraft sadly no....big company seems to be greedy this days, maybe it's time for us to sail in sea
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