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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by wilg on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:20PM (#48362122)
Because I think it's good for software developers and consumers for people to have the flexibility to sell something that depends on online services which may become unavailable at some point in the future. This is more valuable than requiring indefinite support, public pluggable backends, or required open sourcing or backend redistribution, which imposes onerous technical or business limitations for an extremely minor consumer benefit all things considered.

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