Paying for Software

It’s been said , “if you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer, you’re the product.” This is overly simple ¹ but the core of truth is that if a company has a functional business model that’s not based on extracting and abusing user data, it’s less likely to do so. Incentives aren’t the only thing that matters, but they help! I wish this weren’t the world we lived in. I wish the excesses of…