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If that happened much software would just move to the (arguably worse) service model where programs won't work offline or run on your local machine, and if the server shuts down you lose everything.



That's not how the vast majority of the open-source software I use on a daily basis runs...


Not everything is open source, and if it was, then the programmers that currently work on open source projects would be unemployed.




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