But previous model catered for that: you buy a tool and x months of developers&#x27; work. If you want to buy more work (updates) you pay again. The incentives are nicely aligned here.
With the rental model they aren&#x27;t because you will have to pay for 20 years even if they stop developing the software.
This trend is disturbing. It really is similar to not being able to buy an apartment, a car or a kitchen knife.<p>With all the goods I want to pay you for your service&#x2F;time&#x2F;offering and then maybe pay again if I like what you provide and want more of it. I don&#x27;t want a financial relationship with you when just because I bought something you made I need to keep paying for it even though you don&#x27;t need to work on it anymore.<p>What&#x27;s next? Laptop as a service where you get upgrades every year but if you don&#x27;t pay up they take it away from you?