There's plenty of folks out there, doing creative work, using legacy systems, that don't receive security updates, because you used to own your software when you bought it.
Personally, I think we are about to see a huge resurgence in self hosting and returning to "old ways" that worked before subscriptions.
One great example of the anti-pattern: Look at how GitHub has shit the bed since MS bought them. Tons of QoL developer features were pushed behind the enterprise paywall, actions was constantly down and having issues, and they did not innovate anything.
Beware robber barons who innovate nothing and expect you to pay more.
I think we are about to see a huge resurgence in self hosting and returning to "old ways" that worked before subscriptions.
I've been seeing signs of that, a bit. Even my daughter, who is in no way any more computer-savvy than anyone else her age, asked me to help her self-host a number of things because she was fed up with subscriptions.
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There's plenty of folks out there, doing creative work, using legacy systems, that don't receive security updates, because you used to own your software when you bought it.
Personally, I think we are about to see a huge resurgence in self hosting and returning to "old ways" that worked before subscriptions.
One great example of the anti-pattern: Look at how GitHub has shit the bed since MS bought them. Tons of QoL developer features were pushed behind the enterprise paywall, actions was constantly down and having issues, and they did not innovate anything.
Beware robber barons who innovate nothing and expect you to pay more.
I've been seeing signs of that, a bit. Even my daughter, who is in no way any more computer-savvy than anyone else her age, asked me to help her self-host a number of things because she was fed up with subscriptions.