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> $4.99/month for 5 people is affordable.

I’m glad you find it affordable but these nickle and dime things add up. Especially when the product fits into $0 software so $4.99 is infinitely higher than $0.

I feel like these small, “affordable,” services are just whittling away the Unix philosophy of do one small thing well. Layering on unnecessary crap just to charge a fee eventually comes home to roost.

Also, passwords is a lifetime need. So 80 years x 12 months = $4,790.4 and that seems like a cost that should be reduced out of one’s lifetime.

Do I want to go to Tahiti once in my life, or pay for password convenience?

Again, glad you’re happy but I don’t want to live in a world where I pay $5/month for commercials versions that crowd out what should be community, OSS tools. I love curl and it’s awesome, but don’t want to pay $5/month/forever.

We forget that taxes are inefficient and should be minimized where possible. A login tax for all eternity sucks.

parent prepend 5 years ago

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