• MolochHorridus@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Too bad their business model is totally whack for personal use.

    One time purchase of $139 for 6 months of “support and maintenance” and then $49 a year for driver updates and such.

    It’s like they don’t want individuals using it. I’d imagine anyone who would be willing to pay that would be a commercial user with some old software that ArcaOS technically supports. Then it might be worth the price to be able to run said software with newer hardware.

    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz
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      They probably don’t want personal users. I remember seeing, not long ago, an OS/2 error screen in an older, but not ancient, ATM. I imagine there are other industrial/commercial machines still running it, and the technical support must be rather straightforward.