Or you do what everyone else does, which is force everyone to adopt the SaaS model by revoking their licenses or otherwise bricking the software.
That's why it's important to own your own data in a way that can be reused and adapted when they try and screw you later. You see this all the time with video games nowadays. Everyone wants their own launcher and subscription services.
And another example of why you shouldn't depend on SaaS startups for anything you can't replace very quickly with another SaaS or a homegrown solution.
SaaS software as a service is so often SaaSS service as a software substitute. Inflexible, unowned, uncomposable & wired up liable to enshittify terribly.
Screw all of this SaaS needs to die a horrible death. All of these webapps/SaaS products are just data collection apps that can lock you out at any moment. We need to get back to owning our data and installing locally.
Great.
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