Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by mancerayder on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:19PM
(#34046941)
Software companies made no money before subscriptions? How did they last decades?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now?
by eb0la on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:43PM
(#34054986)
The sold licenses, and yearly maintenance.
The subscription model killed the one-off purchase of licenses.
Suddenly if you didn't have a subscription like Red hat did, you had to pay a lot in CAPEx plus maintenance.
That meant that even with the same TCO you were out of business.