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by datavirtue 815 days ago
Seeing this just reminds me of how all software is ephemeral these days. It used to be that you would buy something like this for $20 at EggHead or MicroCenter and use it for the next thirty years without paying another dime. Useful. Now everything is cloud-subscription based. You play the good customer, pay for years, and then it closes down and you have nothing to show for it. Garbage. Excuse me while I slink back to my spreadsheet.