Local First, Forever

Re:Local First, Forever by snowwrestler on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @08:33AM (#40787765)

> Or if it's even possible without an enterprise revenue channel.

Is any company making money in software without an enterprise revenue channel, aside from games? Do regular people “buy software” anymore?

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Re:Local First, Forever by hosteur on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @11:59AM (#40790146)

Yes. I have bought several non-DRM games from gog.com.

Edit: I also recently bought Sublime text, several Jetbrains products and some other utilities.

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Re:Local First, Forever by dghlsakjg on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:31AM (#40788412)

Lots of photo, art, music and other hobby software is for purchase rather than subscription.

Off the top of my head Topaz Labs is a company that offers a suite of photo tools for purchase. They are aimed at both professionals and high end hobbyists.

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Re:Local First, Forever by rsync on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @02:50PM (#40792062)

Yes, I buy software …

I bought iExplorer which lets me sanely treat my iPhone like an external disk … and I bought Mountain Duck which lets me mount remote sftp as a disk in Finder …

… and some other things…

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Re:Local First, Forever by c01nd01r on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @09:08PM (#40795443)

I once bought Paste (a clipboard manager for Mac). However, they later switched to a subscription model, and I decided not to make a new purchase. Then Raycast, which is free, came out, and I stopped using Paste altogether.

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