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by matwood 810 days ago
> I feel like they could have a sustainable model if they had a more expensive one-time purchase and every few years released a new major version that required a one-time purchase again.

And people complain about this also. If everyone is going to complain anyway, they might as well go to subscription which is best for the business.
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hbn 810 days ago
Do they? It's not super common, but I can think of the JetBrains IDEs that I believe let you continue to use the last version of the IDE before you stopped paying. Alfred, the Spotlight alternative for Mac does something like that, and you get a discount code if you own the last version.

Both beloved pieces of software.

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