software as a service is such utter fucking capitalistic fucking bullshit.
so much nicer when you can just get a nice solid version and use that for as long as you fucking like. sure, sometimes upgrades are nice but most of the time they just fuck shit up. i never want to upgrade every year. maybe like every 3 years or some shit. quit changing all the tools i use without my permission you fucking asshats.
I find myself thinking about how corporate management emphasizes busywork, i.e. insisting that everybody be "busy" at all times, whether or not they're doing anything that needs doing—and that's been terrible for software because it means nothing ever settles down to a final design. it's like if a construction firm never finished a bridge, so it was always a terrifying nest of scaffolding and riveting, bolting on more bits and more and more and always more.
and then some finance-minded dude looked at this nightmarish endless busywork and thought "what if we could charge by the month for this"
~Chara
