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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by AlexandrB on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:35PM (#34042934)
It's so much worse when a subscription business fails. You can lose access to your data with very little notice to migrate. At least standalone software keeps working for a while after the company maintaining it is gone.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by redox99 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:14PM (#34048401)
That's a cloud vs desktop distinction, not a subscription vs buy once.

If Adobe went out of business, you wouldn't lose any local stuff.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by sllabres on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:21AM (#34049114)
"Well, is officially illegal has an Adobe products if you live in Venezuela" (Okt 2019) [1]

From [2] (due to sanctions from the US to Venezuela)

[1] https://twitter.com/AenderLara/status/1181291242531020800/ph...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/7/20904030/adobe-venezuela-...

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by sebazzz on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:16AM (#34053797)
That’s really a DRM issue for non-SaaS software: how do you activate software.
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