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I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What amazes me are the number of companies selling "lifetime" VPN service or "lifetime" cloud storage service with a straight face.

Like... that is TRANSPARENTLY a scam. You're literally gonna sell lifetime licenses to people with more money than common sense, until the entire system is overloaded, then just go out of business.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Thought it was funny that these two comments were next to each other.

[–] merthyr1831 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

at least with standalone software it's going to work forever as long as the OS supports it. cant say the same for live service software that you can't run at home

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How much software is standalone these days, though? It seems like most companies are shifting to SaaS.

[–] merthyr1831 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

as long as you can host the "SaaS" elements yourself (nextcloud, for example) there's a lot more software than you'd initially think. There will always be a market for self-hosted options for cloud software imo: loads of businesses are reluctant to move their internal infrastructure to the cloud

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nextcloud isn't SaaS, unless you're paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I mean, you ARE getti ]ng what you pay for, just not until the end of YOUR lifetime,

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I just bought a lifetime subscription to Nebula (a YouTube-like service akin to a co-op for content creators) and my rationale was

Lifetime costs the same as ten years of annual priced subscriptions
It will be cheaper than that due to inflation
The service has been operating for 5 years, so it's likely to last at least 10 more
The service is philosophically opposed to the sort of place that may try to acquire it

Other stuff, no thanks. Too many practical products (as opposed to entertainment ones) have a great supply of methods to screw you and a great desire to screw you.