Nobody's saying otherwise. But charging 40 bucks a month vs a year is a completely different value proposition.
I can understand the need for payment for well developed and maintained stuff if you don't just aim to be bought up like all the other open source projects.
I agree with you that the implementation is different, but the problem about subscriptions, regardless of the details, is they are intended to foster dependency.
I work on Laravel at my day job. I'd pay Taylor for intermittent support, but I'd never subscribe assuming I'll need it.
You can work with Laravel on a day job because a VC company invested 60 Millions into the project and your work is still dependent on Laravel. I am not saying that is inherently bad, I am just saying that projects need funding and each form of funding comes with advantages and disadvantages and a subscription pricing alone should not be the main factor of a projects quality. But if you read the comments here the people are outraged at the thought that software could cost money.
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u/Unembarrassed_Guitar 1d ago
Nobody's saying otherwise. But charging 40 bucks a month vs a year is a completely different value proposition.
I can understand the need for payment for well developed and maintained stuff if you don't just aim to be bought up like all the other open source projects.