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  • Amazon - the logistics company - is just a front end for (and leech on) various drop shippers, lately, anyway.

    Amazon used to carry quality guarantees, and have meaningful reviews, but lately the wild West crapshoot of the rest of the web is just as good.

    (And at least on the rest of the web I have some idea who I’m buying from, and can avoid them after a bad experience. On Amazon, it got to where there was no way I could tell.)







  • I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.

    Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.

    So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.

    Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.

    I just expect more from most of my software, now.