you ever encounter a schmuk holding on to some ancient piece of software (usually through some bankruptcy acq), licensing it out prolly making $100/yr instead of releasing to the community?

wth is up these guys?

/rant

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    58·
    1 year ago

    It happens when investment funds buy software houses thinking they got a goose that can lay golden eggs. So they layoff everyone and outsource support, thinking idiot users will continue to buy a new update license every year where the changelog is a different icon and three new bugs. Actual development died two decades ago but pricing increase every year to make up for “lost” sales

    Fuck KKR

  • seathru@lemm.eeEnglish
    18·
    1 year ago

    Be the change you want to see. Crowdsource a license, crack it, and set it free

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    It feels similar to that old guy with all the classic cars rotting in the back 40 who refuses to sell at any sane price. Not analogous, exactly, but it’s the same feeling of frustration.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      That’s my uncle! He has an half dozen rusty cars with broken engine in his garden and refuses to sell for sane prices. He always complains the retirement money is not enough for a living, but can’t get rid of that trash. My mom found someone wanting to buy one of those for 3000 euro, he said “but you can see listings for 50k for this car”. Dude, 50k is for museum-grade collectible car, and a listing doesn’t mean that will actually sell for that price.

      So we dread for the day he dies as we will need to pay someone to dispose all that trash

      • Haui@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Oof. I feel you. I like cars and I hate when this happens.

        I got another good example: I‘m in the market for a garden plot (I live in a city with no perspective on getting my own house soon).

        There are waiting lists that are years if not decades long. All while gardens get sold/rented out behind the curtain and worst of all: abandoned ones rotting away or being used as scrap yards by companies (which should be illegal).

        It just makes me so sad. We have so much stuff we could solve if you could just go to your local government rep and tell them to change this, state your reasons and watch it change.