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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.

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