top | item 30374129 (no title) kevindong | 4 years ago Can you expand on what you mean by "rent seeking" in this context?Regarding subscription fees, there's nothing wrong with paying for software. discuss order hn newest natch|4 years ago No, it’s a well understood concept. giyf.I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope. npteljes|4 years ago Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P. evanb|4 years ago I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0].[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/ load replies (1)
natch|4 years ago No, it’s a well understood concept. giyf.I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope.
npteljes|4 years ago Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P. evanb|4 years ago I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0].[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/ load replies (1)
evanb|4 years ago I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0].[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/ load replies (1)
natch|4 years ago
I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope.
npteljes|4 years ago
evanb|4 years ago
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