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A comment on Ask HN: Is commercial desktop software dead?.

Re:Ask HN: Is commercial desktop software dead? by drdrey on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:36AM (#16076992)
See this post by patio11: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...
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Re:Ask HN: Is commercial desktop software dead? by api on Sunday January 07, 2018 @04:26PM (#16092840)
The point about piracy is important and is a major hidden factor here. The cloud is DRM.
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