• RickRussell_CA@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    What amazes me are the number of companies selling “lifetime” VPN service or “lifetime” cloud storage service with a straight face.

    Like… that is TRANSPARENTLY a scam. You’re literally gonna sell lifetime licenses to people with more money than common sense, until the entire system is overloaded, then just go out of business.

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      1 year ago

      at least with standalone software it’s going to work forever as long as the OS supports it. cant say the same for live service software that you can’t run at home

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        1 year ago

        How much software is standalone these days, though? It seems like most companies are shifting to SaaS.

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          1 year ago

          as long as you can host the “SaaS” elements yourself (nextcloud, for example) there’s a lot more software than you’d initially think. There will always be a market for self-hosted options for cloud software imo: loads of businesses are reluctant to move their internal infrastructure to the cloud

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            1 year ago

            Nextcloud isn’t SaaS, unless you’re paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.