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Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears
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this post was submitted on 10 Oct 2024
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Yep, one free and one paid app I have used for a while recently moved previously entitled functionality behind subscription paywalls. Serves me right. Will stick to libre apps from here and suffer that way instead.
The app was really good and I’d be willing to pay for it, but not a subscription just to use features that are already in the app.
Additionally, it’s a scanner app, who scans enough to subscribe to a scanner app but doesn’t scan enough to not just buy a scanner?