[whelp_24]

You seem to be against actually selling software, and tactily agreeing that the main beneficiary of the saas is the business renting the software to consumers. We already know that company benefits from not actually selling you software.

[mattbgates]

It's selling it at the one-time price that may have long-term consequences. So it sounds great in theory and gives investors a chance to feel like they own it, but subscriptions are better in the fact that they are continued support for the product. I guess it just means not every product can be sold for a one-time price, though there is software out there where it works just fine to do so.