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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 a…

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.

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 stre…

They already got the idea. Look up the "O'Reilly Learning Platform"

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 i…

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 l…

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…

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, i…

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 subs…

If revenue is not attached to feature planning, how are users going to influence what features get developed?

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 …

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 instea…

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.

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 runnabl…

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 y…

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