What's a "dead" SSH client? If the client works, and if you aren't connecting to untrusted hosts, what's the problem with using it?

Well... thanks again! To be clear, I’m not arguing for you guys to drop the subscription model. Surely it must cover some needs. I’m simply letting you know that a bunch of us want to make a contribution. So something not as full-featured as the subscription product but maybe with another bell or whistle could be a way to implement this. (Personally I don’t need an improvement. It’s already great as it is.)

No offense but your point of being reliable by virtue of being a growing startup is rather laughable.

YC money or not, startups come and go, sometimes going with more of their users’ data than they should. You could have avoided making that point altogether.

Per version payment is “no business model”?

You do realize Adobe, Microsoft, others, made money fine for 40 years before realizing they could leverage corporate procurement into wildly overpriced (~3x what was already profitable) subscriptions?

"no business model" e.g. one off payment

and yet Microsoft (worlds most valuable company btw) built an empire selling software.

And yet here we are in 2019 and they're moving to subscription model

Because now they can rope-a-dope the market segment who don’t need to upgrade every year, usually only with a new computer.

It’s rent seeking of a sort. No additional needed value delivered, artificial change to extract more monies.

Microsoft was not built on $5 one off software.