Comment by SOLAR_FIELDS
19 hours ago
The problem with one time purchases is that they don’t allow for rent seeking behavior - the cornerstone of any sufficiently sustainable greed model
19 hours ago
The problem with one time purchases is that they don’t allow for rent seeking behavior - the cornerstone of any sufficiently sustainable greed model
Well, for non-standalone apps you also need some degree of ongoing support, at the very least to patch the security bug in your app or update libraries that have those.
and when whatever framework or big lib you use decide "well we're making new version, everything you made will break, have fun", that needs engineering too.
Buy once model is pretty much only for standalone, offline apps. Anything online and you have to start to worry about supporting new TLS versions or having to update certificate store (if app for some bizzare reason ignores system one)