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by adolph 1461 days ago
That seems a kinda conspiratorial stretch for a phenomena that has a simpler possible explanation: they see maintenance as a growing revenue source.
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It's not conspiratorial at all. After a certain size, and upon getting a CFO that'll actually pay attention to things like that, this is a 100% incentivized way of doing things.

It's not conspiratorial in the mustache twirling sense, but it is 100% an unambiguously desired outcome of how our tax laws and accounting principles are currently structured.

A system is perfectly tuned to generate the outcomes it does. If you don't like those outcomes, you have to change the system.