- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
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WTF?! Subscription based bullshit is cancer
It makes sense from the business’s perspective - they want a reliable way to keep funding development.
A flat fee made sense in the days when they “finished” software and then sold physical media in stores. They did the work. They’re done. They set a price and sold it in stores.
But now we’re in this weird hybrid scenario that I hate. I expect security updates for something I “bought” (especially if it’s something connected to the internet), and I understand developers need to get paid to do that. But at the same time, I just want the software I bought. I don’t really want to keep paying over and over because the developer wants to keep adding in features that weren’t there when I bought it.
Good to see existing licenses will be grandfathered in, would be lots of uproar if that wasn’t the case.
Also not surprising with how they have been growing and performing, just means probably won’t be my default rec when asked how to make a NAS/server
“The existing licenses will be active as long as current USB drive lives”
Not sure where you’re getting that or if it was in jest. Blog mentions nothing in relation to that and their docs are still up about migrating a license to a new flash drive.
Now I’m even happier that I moved to proxmox.
I never understood why people use unraid, mostly because I never understood the “parity” features, or honestly between you and me the lack of proper parity. But I have a Synology, so I can’t talk (price wise) and I have raid 5 everywhere so parity is a joke here too :p
