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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by skohan on Monday May 31, 2021 @10:29PM (#27350174)
It's not only ads. Autodesk I believe does online rendering now, and for most CAD drawings even a cheap APU can handle that level of geometry, but it's harder to justify a recurring revenue model for a fully local application.
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Re:Rethinking the computer ‘desktop’ as a concept by jacquesm on Monday May 31, 2021 @11:32PM (#27350485)
> it's harder to justify a recurring revenue model for a fully local application.

Then don't. Software was plenty profitable when we were just selling licenses.

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