I used to when I worked outside of games. I worked on a payments backend for an etailing website. The software cost was paid for by items purchased. I don't think anyone considers buying an item at a site like target.com considers them paying for software. That software is for the businesses benefit.

I don't buy any (non gaming) software for any other purposes because most of the time the pricing model, licensing model, or lack of platform support is not right for me.

I don't want SaaS for anything because things constantly change (almost always for the worse) from under me. I don't want to have to pay a subscription to play my music, watch my videos, or take my notes.

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mvanbaak 12 hours ago | parent [-]

> I don't think anyone considers buying an item at a site like target.com considers them paying for software.

You do know target adds the cost for their web presence to their cost centre, and you as customer pays for it right?

	▲	antiframe 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I do. But I also know that if ask anyone "Do you pay for Target's software?", they are likely to say "no" or "huh". The context was why do people who complain about software costs not work for free. Or maybe a better way to express my thought: one can work in a paying software job and still dislike "paying for software" where that means a subscription to play local media files.