I even had this problem at work recently, where the last free version of GitKraken was made non-operational by the vendor, and the paid version comes with a subscription. I have to say that as a technology enthusiast, the outlook appears pretty bleak: Software that is either subscription-only or inferior FOSS software. Why does software that doesn’t have any significant infrastructure costs on the part of the vendor comes as subscription-only? Where does this end? Will your fridge come with a subscription for the software and if you don’t pay it will stop working?Īnd the sad thing is that, even if the EU makes it so that software without any significant infrastructure costs has to be made available as a perpetual license, the vendor can always go the Adobe route of throwing in a mediocre cloud storage service in the package to “justify” the subscription model.
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