No. It is not the consumer's job to support the software developers. It is the software developers' job to develop a product that they can make a living on.

[–] leggettc18@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That’s… what the subscription cost is for. For the developer to make a living.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

You act like nobody can make a living without these bullshit subscriptions. That is simply not the case, and anyone who disagrees is brainwashed by subscription pushers. You are being fleeced like sheep with all these bullshit subscriptions.

Software developers have been around for many decades, making damn good money all over the place. Only in the recent years have the software companies turned to the subscription model for everything, because their accountants figured out it makes them more money over the long term.

Again, it is not OUR job to support them. It is THEIR job to support themselves by making a product that people want to buy. I don't want to buy their subscriptions, so they are doing a bad job of marketing to me.

I bought Affinity Photo because their software marketing was more attractive to me than any of Adobe's bullshit subscriptions. I will continue to use the product I paid for (once) indefinitely, and if it stops getting updates I will still be able to use it as long as I want because I control its installation locally.