alt Hacker NewsComputer software is on the chart as getting cheaper with time but that can’t be right? I remember Photoshop used to be a disc and you owned it for a reasonable price and now you subscribe to the Adobe protection racket. Software as a service would be a service which should go in the top of the graph with other extortionists like colleges and hospitals.
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zeroonetwothree • last Sunday at 5:13 PM
Well there are other examples, eg Google Docs is free, no need to pay for Office.
I don’t know about the aggregate data tbf
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The reasonable price was $600 in 2000 which is over $1000 adjusted for inflation. That's four years of subscription, the useful life of a perpetual license may not be much more than that.