@kdfrawg Exactly. And with information security, a good chunk of the value is in the continual, real-time updates you get.
// @kyle
@kyle For most of my career. Not necessarily directly selling it, but I've done my share of pre and post-sales stuff. And now: marketing. I've seen it from many different angles.
@kyle Enterprise software has been operating under a similar model for years now: pay upfront then pay over time for updates and support. Only recently have we seen this "pay as you go" model (which is really what a subscription is).
So I'm trying Duolingo to learn Hebrew. I refuse to give them money for "gems", so it's going fairly slow.
@jws Google is relying on external developers to write secure code? Have they learned nothing form the goatse and fail that has propagated on their platform for a decade?
// @jussipekonen @kdfrawg @gtwilson