I am against it becoming the 'normal' or most common way of buying software, for reasons I outlined in a previous post.Trancit wrote:But is there anybody against a rent-to-own model???
basically it's the thin end of the wedge ... a backdoor into (significantly) higher overall prices at best, the subscription model at worst, and almost certainly a scenario where the only license you would end up owning would be for the version that was current at the time of your final payment - bugs and all
imo the only thing that would keep the rent to own model 'honest', would be its much smaller market share and the fact that it would be an alternative to the dominant existing model ... which is precisely why it seems appealing today.
ymmv.