Rent, Lease or Own?
At least as far as the ordinary computer user goes, Adobe started it. They quit selling updates to Photoshop and other of their software programs, and began openly leasing or renting it. If you want to use Photoshop today, you have to sign up for the Adobe plan to rent it by the month, quarter, or year. You never own it. You don't get a DVD, or USB stick, or anything like that.
Now Microsoft is doing the same. I'm sure you don't really "Own" Windows 10. They just keep pushing their updates on you whether you want them or not. Their Office 365 product if primarily a "rental" or "lease" commodity. Others are following suit.
Do you like it? Resent it? Love it? Hate it?
Tough. Until you can write a better piece of software for yourself, you are pretty stuck.
What do you think? Leave a comment and let us know.