Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021)
by paskozdilar on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:18AM
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Networks don't change over time. Centralized "application-servers" do. Making applications network-dependent when they don't need to be is a part of the problem.
Security vulnerabilities don't change OS APIs. OS APIs are one of the most stable constructs in computing.
There is a huge subset of software that doesn't require interaction over the network, and can be written to last. And even inherently network-dependent applications could be written using p2p technologies, making them independent on anyone's computer. Just because the everything sucks right now doesn't mean it has to.
Security vulnerabilities don't change OS APIs. OS APIs are one of the most stable constructs in computing.
There is a huge subset of software that doesn't require interaction over the network, and can be written to last. And even inherently network-dependent applications could be written using p2p technologies, making them independent on anyone's computer. Just because the everything sucks right now doesn't mean it has to.