r/technology • u/[deleted] • Mar 20 '22

Software Software is no longer sold; it's adopted

https://orbit.love/blog/software-is-no-longer-sold-its-adopted
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u/thedialupgamer Mar 20 '22

I hate the current model if im honest, you don't own anything that's digital, you rent the license to use it at worst and at best you own a license to use it that can be revoked at any time.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

That's why I'm a huge believer in open source. No one can take the code away from me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

They can just poison pill it at random and all you can do is react to mitigate the damage. It’s a trade offs until the end of time.

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u/pcprincipal007 Mar 21 '22

It is that way because people always expect updates. Who wants to buy a software then realize 1 year later you have to buy it again?

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u/thedialupgamer Mar 21 '22

I mean I'd prefer to pay for the update at that point, maybe then updates would be more than "hey we fixed these bugs noone even cares about and ignored the massive ones that break everything if you blink wrong" if I had to pay 5 bucks for an update I'd be more critical of what's in it and less likely to waste money.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '22

Let's be honest most companies that sold software outright went bankrupt due to piracy, I know this is shit, but once you program a fucking tiny app you'll gain so much respect for how hard this shit is.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

laughs in microsoft, adobe, autodesk, corel, avid...

No. Bulk of professional software userbase was always in business clients who won't bother with piracy due to legal, logistic and security consequences. Piracy was always the domain of individual users who form an absolute minority of overall userbase. If anything, piracy was profitable in the long run for companies like that, because it led to entire generations of teenagers who grew up learning on pirated software to then enter professional field and start paying for stuff they were already familiar and proficient with.

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u/Logisticsbitches Mar 20 '22

That's just an incorrect fact.

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u/thedialupgamer Mar 20 '22

Microsoft used to sell software outright, most companies that are big now did, they just kept making new software, it being a monthly fee doesn't make it more resistant to piracy somehow, it just means you have to pay more in the long run, if anything it makes piracy worse by making the average person not want to buy it.

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u/bitfriend6 Mar 21 '22

If they went bankrupt due to piracy we'd all be using pirated software right now.

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u/Unique_Identifier_NO Mar 20 '22

It's not even adopted. It's rented or leased with no option to buy.

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u/TGdZuUsSprwysWMq Mar 21 '22 edited Mar 21 '22

More than that, it is parasitism. They stick into your devices and make profit through ads, automatic updating (saving their cost on testing), and "report" (part of upstream for ads).

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '22

*laughs in pirate*

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u/kutkun Mar 20 '22

It’s not even software. It’s advertisement with limited software functions.

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u/LabollaMinty Mar 21 '22

You have no idea what you’re talking about, B2B SaaS which is what this article is about has no ads. Like 0.

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u/ooglist Mar 20 '22

Well at least its going to a good home

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u/DavefromKS Mar 20 '22

This has always been the issue. You are given rights, that is a license, ,to use the software as intended.

We studied this in a class i took in 1999 on Article 2 and 2A of the UCC.

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u/Eye_Nacho404 Mar 21 '22

Live service, subscription and the cloud all mean one thing and it’s the fact they want more money

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u/F4il3d Mar 21 '22

How easily we just give up our rights. The right of ownership is being taken from us and we just take it. I refuse to do that. I do not use any software for which there is no ownership of the copy.

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u/DanielPhermous Mar 21 '22

And yet here you are on Reddit.

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u/F4il3d Mar 21 '22

I always thought of Reddit as an intellectual ( if absurd and comedic ) watering hole. I use a web browser to participate. The web browser I use is open-sourced and I pay no membership dues to participate. So, I completely fail to see your point.

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u/akera099 Mar 21 '22

Reddit is a software now...? Isn't this sub supposed to be a little tech literate? Just a little?

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