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Re:Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee by lolinder on Monday April 12, 2021 @11:58PM (#26787989)
Is this any different from AWS offering reserved instances? The pricing structure is the same: you pay by the month but commit to a year. Reserved instances seem perfectly fair to me: what's different here?
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Re:Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee by upbeat_general on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:31AM (#26788436)
Context matters. Almost no pure software product has a cancellation fee. It's always a yearly cost or monthly where you can cancel anytime.

Some things like apartment leases are not only in a different context, but it's done for a clear reason. Reserved instances on AWS I'm assuming has a similar purpose but it's also in a different context and it's hopefully made very clear to the user.

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