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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by phendrenad2 on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:21AM (#34049750)
And no non-subscription software company has ever gone out of business, and deleted all download links when it did so, preventing you (as soon as you lose the installer) from ever installing it again?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by TeMPOraL on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:24AM (#34050112)
There are websites out there backing up every version of every software you can think of. In CD/DVD days, you'd obviously have your installation media, which the vendor couldn't retroactively take away from you. Or its backup. Later, I always kept the copy of the original installer .msi/.iso (mostly to save on download time - companies retiring products or going out of business so fast as SaaS ones do wasn't on my radar for a long time).
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by phendrenad2 on Monday December 19, 2022 @06:48AM (#34051039)
Oh no! Don't trust those websites. This is how people get viruses.
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