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bigstrat2003 on April 28, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Giving Software Away for Free

If your concern is infrastructure costs making the software no longer available, why choose a website approach in the first place? Distribute it so that users can run it on their computers and it'll work forever.

jinay on April 28, 2025 [–]

That's not the only concern though. The web is by far the most accessible way to distribute something, which is paramount in getting people to use it.

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