Re:No Config for Old Men
by tonyedgecombe on Sunday November 29, 2020 @04:24AM
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I don't know. I spend a lot less money on software compared to twenty years ago. So much of what I use is available for free or a nominal amount. When was the last time you paid for a compiler?
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FWIW, never. Not in my ~25 years of programming. GCC, Perl, and Python meant never purchasing a compiler.
And purchasing, well, it's the lesser of evils these days. Purchasing at least gave you vitually cart blanche access to software on your computer with time limits imposed only by processing architectures.
Now, in contrast, everything is moving towards subscriptions. 1Password. Microsoft Office. Photoshop. Sublime Text (professional). Apple Music (or Spotify, et.al.). Apple TV (or Netflix, et.al.). Novlr (a word processor).
All expect me to shell out anything from $1 to upwards of $50 a month in perpetuity for the right to borrow their software. And that's not even mentioning microtransactions, for things like alternate brushes in PS.