I have mixed feelings about upvoting you because point 2 is a wall of text and hard to read /s ;)
You are correct however.
The real key is realizing that any subscription based platform has the potential of jerking you around.
However given the sheer volume of impacted developers and the easily calculated uh class action Value, I am sure there is a predatory pricing lawsuit in there somewhere.
Another approach might be to form a publisher coop who can negotiate a better price on behalf of its members. That too likely will sour at some point.
Or just pay the license fee while determining how to exit the platform if it isn’t generating revenue … or stick with it if it works.
Yeah, that too. I mean at the end of the day it’s a software company changing its pricing. I’m addressing this from the perspective of “If we take it as granted that this is an economic injustice, what’s the right way to address it,” but from the POV of Indians working at the salt factory or miners in the late 1800s having gunfights for their right to strike, they’d laugh their asses off at what’s being called “injustice” here.
the industry has shown that it can and will ignore anything else…not that i believe that legitimate death threats were made. i think it’s a sympathy ploy personally
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I have mixed feelings about upvoting you because point 2 is a wall of text and hard to read /s ;)
You are correct however.
The real key is realizing that any subscription based platform has the potential of jerking you around.
However given the sheer volume of impacted developers and the easily calculated uh class action Value, I am sure there is a predatory pricing lawsuit in there somewhere.
Another approach might be to form a publisher coop who can negotiate a better price on behalf of its members. That too likely will sour at some point.
Or just pay the license fee while determining how to exit the platform if it isn’t generating revenue … or stick with it if it works.
Yeah, that too. I mean at the end of the day it’s a software company changing its pricing. I’m addressing this from the perspective of “If we take it as granted that this is an economic injustice, what’s the right way to address it,” but from the POV of Indians working at the salt factory or miners in the late 1800s having gunfights for their right to strike, they’d laugh their asses off at what’s being called “injustice” here.
People are reacting to the feeling of a lack of choice & nothing in it for them.
With death threats
the industry has shown that it can and will ignore anything else…not that i believe that legitimate death threats were made. i think it’s a sympathy ploy personally