you ever encounter a schmuk holding on to some ancient piece of software (usually through some bankruptcy acq), licensing it out prolly making $100/yr instead of releasing to the community?
It happens when investment funds buy software houses thinking they got a goose that can lay golden eggs. So they layoff everyone and outsource support, thinking idiot users will continue to buy a new update license every year where the changelog is a different icon and three new bugs. Actual development died two decades ago but pricing increase every year to make up for “lost” sales
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It happens when investment funds buy software houses thinking they got a goose that can lay golden eggs. So they layoff everyone and outsource support, thinking idiot users will continue to buy a new update license every year where the changelog is a different icon and three new bugs. Actual development died two decades ago but pricing increase every year to make up for “lost” sales
Fuck KKR
KKR?
It’s an investment fund that has that behavior