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Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) by Kinrany on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:11PM (#32287889)
Proprietary software should come with a warranty that covers security vulnerabilities for N years.
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Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) by nradov on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:04PM (#32292480)
Nothing is stopping you from requesting such a warranty from your vendors, and refusing to buy from those who fail to offer such a warranty.
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Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) by Kinrany on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:16AM (#32302323)
Coordination problems do.
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Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) by EugeneOZ on Sunday July 31, 2022 @03:08AM (#32293847)
Imagine a developer who has to spend 50-90 hours per month just to provide the promised security patches for each of the 5 products they have created and sold at least once.
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Re:Dear startups: I hate subscription services (2021) by Kinrany on Monday August 01, 2022 @01:22AM (#32302356)
No one is in a better position than that developer to make this maintenance burden lighter, so they're the one who should be incentivised to do that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286651

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