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WTF?! Subscription based bullshit is cancer
I'm not so sure that's what this is...at least at this time. The lower tiers according to the article are still a perpetual license but the support/updates will be an optional extra after 1 year. Current customers won't be effected and they have a tier that completely avoids this.
I'm not thrilled by it, but in comparison Fusion360 went from 70 a month to 85 a month without any real reason and this doesn't seem like the same can of bullshit.
It's not a subscription... Yet. The nice thing is that you can just decide not to pay and you won't lose access or anything. You just won't get active development either.
Which I want to say sounds fair - but a lot of companies start with this premise and then it gets handed over to some MBA who decides the most long-term loyal customers are not being squeezed enough. Even just this week I recommended unraid to someone. Now though...
Yeah I just deployed an unraid server for someone so this isn't fantastic news...but alternatives exist if/when shit happens.
Yeah I'll be keeping a very weathered eye out on it from here on. We'll see what changes, my average that I see is 4 years from the announcement like this to a full on subscription model. Hopefully enough time for the community to start making an open sourced distro...