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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

A corporation that charges a monthly subscription for products it could sell outright. Offers it to students at a time when they are most likely to develop habits in it, uses a proprietary storage format that only works well with their products.

Once you get a customer addicted, you've got them for life.