Re:Placemark is going open source and shutting down
by andybak on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @09:46AM
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Maybe the pricing is off?
There's lots of things I'd use at $n but wouldn't use at $10n
And the corollary of this - if open source didn't exist, the result wouldn't be me paying for lots more products - it would be using lots less products.
Certainly - the advent of paywalls has meant that I mainly don't read those sources. Even the more affordable ones come with a mental tax of deciding to subscribe/cancel, remembering to renew/cancel etc...
There's lots of things I'd use at $n but wouldn't use at $10n
And the corollary of this - if open source didn't exist, the result wouldn't be me paying for lots more products - it would be using lots less products.
Certainly - the advent of paywalls has meant that I mainly don't read those sources. Even the more affordable ones come with a mental tax of deciding to subscribe/cancel, remembering to renew/cancel etc...