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by ElectricalUnion 52 days ago
> When my work depends upon a software someone made for free, there's an unnecessary power dynamic in play where since I didn't pay for it, they can rugpull me anytime.

I would daresay one of the reasons why Win32 is so stable, is because Microsoft itself rugpulls even stuff they offer as "improvements" and "better" (WinForms, WPF, UWP, WinUI 3, MAUI, Blazor Hybrid, WebView2 come to mind), so everyone else can't trust anything but the basics.

AKA: When my work depends upon a software I paid for, they still rugpull me.