Making more of it?
Ask HN: What is our community doing about the subscription software epidemic?
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Re: Ask HN: What is our community doing about the subscription software epidemic?
#12> It seems every week on here there is a thread lamenting how users are forced into subscription software services Who exactly is forced into subscription software? If you don't want to pay for a subscription then use something open source (maybe consider donating or contributing), paid up front or write your own.
> paid up front
The option is increasingly not available. That's the issue.
Re: Ask HN: What is our community doing about the subscription software epidemic?
#13> It seems every week on here there is a thread lamenting how users are forced into subscription software services Who exactly is forced into subscription software? If you don't want to pay for a subscription then use something open source (maybe consider donating or contributing), paid up front or write your own.
> paid up front The option is increasingly not available. That's the issue.
Yeah I get it. But from someone who's sold software this way before, for paid up front to make economic sense it needs to be a quite a significant amount. Majority of people don't want to commit to this.