I’ve been closely following the WordPress war that broke out a couple of months ago and is still going strong. The whole WPE vs Automattic war of words that has become a high-profile legal case (which Mat\/Automattic lost heavily) has been fascinating to keep in touch with. But this post isn’t about any of that ongoing drama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This thought has been brought about by something I read on the r\/Wordpress forum, re subscriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have an account with a streaming service and you purchase (for example) a film. You may later decide to stop paying for that streaming service, but the bottom line is you still own that film. You may still access that film on any device that supports that streaming service. This seems logical, yes? Well, now let’s move the conversation into the wacky world of software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have a Microsoft O365 subscription (for example) you are, effectively, paying for something you will never own. If you decide at some stage in the future you want to move to Libre Office and you stop paying for your O365 subscription, that’s it. In the old days you bought a licence for Office products, you owned those products, you downloaded them and you used them in perpetuity or until your machine gave up. But under the subscription model you own nothing and (if you continue with it) you are paying for it for ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s a super-smart money-making wheeze the software companies have wrapped themselves up in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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