• bluewing@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    If you buy software at a version point, (vs the subscription model), why would you expect an update for it? Particularly for free? You chose to buy at a frozen point.

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      7 hours ago

      Because it’s beneficial for the software company’s reputation. People are more likely to buy the software when they know that it’s not going to get a permanently unpatched zero-day the moment the next version comes out.

    • Evotech@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      In this day and age people expect security and operational patches. It’s hard work maintaining software, even if it is feature complete.