That's right. Rather than paying your $10/month 'racket', you simply paid $300 one time.
Then every 3 years or so you spent $300 again to get the updated version. It was a much better system!
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Then every 3 years or so you spent $300 again to get the updated version. It was a much better system!
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By your math it was. 10x12x3=360 > 300. Subscriptions cost more than buying the actual software. Why do you think most companies switched to a subscription model?
I much prefer buying software licenses outright than renting them forever.
Declaring them equal based on a single metric like color would be as silly as suggesting subscriptions and purchases are the same because their costs over an arbitrary period of time are roughly similar.
my owned software doesn’t abruptly stop working when I don’t pay my “rent”