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Yeah this is the elephant in the room. Running a powerful, centralized web service that gets accessed by many users on many different clients with everything synchronized and patched and updated in one place is such a better model than self-hosted for so many software use cases.

Edit: simplified.

>>apante+(OP)
And then the service stops, for business reasons, and the user is left holding the bag.

This is very much the opposite of the spirit of free software. It's a feudal system.

>>apante+(OP)
Sure if not taking privacy ("is my data being sold to competitors and anyone who pays? Will it leak to the web?") and strategic vision ("will this critical dependency be shutdown tomorrow") into consideration.

Other than that it's cool, sure.