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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by rgun on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @04:41AM (#21582436)
Agreed. But if a user agrees to be left "out in the cold", you should allow him to. Given that it is not very costly for you to prepare your software for on-prem, it maybe a win-win for all the parties involved.
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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by jwr on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @05:03AM (#21582512)
> Given that it is not very costly for you to prepare your software for on-prem

I have been asserting exactly the opposite in this thread.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by rgun on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:45AM (#21583022)
Assuming you are not providing any updates (not even security critical ones for argument's sake), you only need to package and add documentation for an on-prem installation. Why is it so costly?
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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by scbrg on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @08:22AM (#21583647)
> you only need to package and add documentation

None of which are insignificant.

In addition to that you must now support (and test for) a million configurations, rather than just one.

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Re:Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the ... by FpUser on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:23AM (#21584674)
FUD. Among my products I have desktop software. Sure I got some pains upon initial release but it's been literally years since I really needed to test "for million configurations".

I also have experience developing and maintaining cloud solutions. Total amount of work that goes into large cloud apps and amount of things things that can brake or not work properly is fairly impressive. Definitely not any less then on premises

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