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Anders Borum Jun 20, 2024

Reading Mastodon and listening to podcasts it has become accepted truth that only subscription pricing makes software development sustainable. That having users pay once is irresponsible.

But the underlying fallacy is that every user should make you profit.

To be sustainable your users collectively need to pay you enough and with millions of future users it is very possible to just have income from new users.

You still want to cater to existing users. Their goodwill will bring in new users.

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Plakat

@palmin to me the WorkingCopy model was always as perfect as it gets. For other options I seldom use software that offers subscription only (except if there’s a backend that has to be operated and generates costs), but in most cases choose the buy option. If available, that is… if not I may skip and use another product instead that offers this option.
Offering subscriptions for those who like that model is fine with me. I just not like it as the only option.