If nothing is going on at work this allows you to work overtime to find compilation issues, can't have enough redundant leaky abstractions in a project ..
That’s a flimsy argument. Product sales can do that. Doesn’t need to be a subscription unless you know your market is weak or your data mining.
We can’t be ok with everything being a subscription. You won’t have any money left or, worse, only the rich can afford the tools. I’m much happier paying for $60 Steam games and forgetting about them after a month. Sell this for $20 forever and do it 50,000 times by building a good product. If you get to market mass where you need a dev team to keep up with all the bleeding edge changes to SQL that are coming out, then charge a subscription.
$99 for the current version forever with 1 year of updates. Once that expires you can keep using the last version you had access to forever, or get another year of update for $59.
You can also renew at any time. I’ve paid for it in the past, at some point stopped using it for a few years, and when I started using it again I just renewed for a year to get a few years worth of updates at once.
I like this pricing a lot too because you actually support and incentivize the development of new features.
Yep, and that's in the aggregate. So some sectors got probably worse. Germany also has since forever now a domestic demand crisis. Austerity since the 90s and another boost in 2010 (Agenda 2010). Forced it on entire EU and hardcore on Greece, from which they never recovered.
