Will CRA further encourage subscription models?

[Dr. Trigon]

> What do you think? Is there are a trend towards 
> subscription models?

Clearly yes, as you described very well.

> How does that affect user freedom? Does the 
> planned CRA encourage the
> trend towards subscription models?

I do extremly dislike this kind of products and try to avoid them as much as possible. I do even invest extra time and often go without using such products. Sad as I like to follow and investigate on new concepts and developments.

Regards
Ursin Solèr




Am 24. Oktober 2023 08:28:26 MESZ schrieb Nico Rikken <nico.rikken at fsfe.org>:
>Hey FSFE community,
>
>I really like to hear your points of view on a thought I had.
>
>The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is set to require companies to keep
>providing updates for the lifetime of a product. That will mean an
>increased an continued effort (thus cost) by the vendor.
>
>I expect that this will encourage the practice of subscription models.
>In this way the vendor has recurring income and has some control over
>the availability of a product or service. Regardless whether these are
>SaaS services, physical products products of installable software
>applications. Some functionality might be available without using
>services, but that would be so limited that it would hardly justify the
>purchase and so you are strongly compelled to get the subscription.
>
>For sure the market will allow for different funding model to compete
>and it is ultimately up to users to decide. But take the Adobe Creative
>Suite as an example; there are now many artists that are bound to
>monthly payment to obtain access to access and modify their work. Or
>how about the fitness trackers that need a subscription model to access
>the data and analysis for which you bought it in the first place.
>
>Personally I think the trend towards subscription models is a negative
>one as a user is required to keep paying for continued development and
>can not decide to be content with the existing version. Worse is that
>proprietary standard and access to data are used as leverage to compel
>users to sign up and keep the subscription.
>
>What do you think? Is there are a trend towards subscription models?
>How does that affect user freedom? Does the planned CRA encourage the
>trend towards subscription models?
>
>Looking forward to your thoughts,
>Nico
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