My programming hot take is that all the “justification” that we give for why we have to sell subscriptions over one time purchases are just excuses given to engineers by their managers so they get on board with price gouging. No way it costs hundreds of dollars per customer per year to patch Word.

Reposted from Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺

I miss the days when you bought Microsoft Office one time and then installed it and you had a functioning word processor forever.

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