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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).
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.