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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by dmitrygr on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:41PM (#34043828)
> I'm happy to pay a subscription because this way I get a steady stream of all the updates

Who needs that? I use office 97 with Microsoft’s office converters package for modern formats. Super fast and does all I need

I use photoshop cs2. Local. Fast. Offline

Software can easily reach “good enough”.

What is it with people today that makes them think that no updates or no recent changes is bad?

I WANT my tools to be stable and not change from under me.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by chillfox on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:59PM (#34048682)
Anxiety about security would be my guess.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by TeMPOraL on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:47AM (#34050262)
Cynical worry/prediction: companies still selling software, or that have a backlog of previously sold old versions people still use, have an incentive to publish detailed descriptions into security vulnerabilities they've already patched in the newer/current versions, but which they won't patch in the older versions.
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