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For all the people saying you'd be happy to pay for this given its value to you: you're missing the point. The DRM is the problem, and paid software is perfectly capable of existing without DRM.

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I think the point of DRM (assuming by that you mean license activation) is clear. It prevents people from trivially sharing the single paid program and having others use it without paying. How can that be prevented without some type of DRM?

Like I said in another comment, there's plenty of paid DRM-free software in the world, like the entirety of GOG's catalog. If that's not a big enough problem to put GOG out of business, then why would it be a big problem for this?

What DRM are you talking about?

They just added product activation to it, just like Windows has: https://support.typora.io/activation/

What's the alternative?

What does all the software for sale on GOG do?

Snark aside, interesting business model. Never knew about this website.

Get downloaded and hosted all around the internet for free download?

I like what GOG is doing but I'm sure there is a lot of piracy of their stuff.

I'm sure there is too, but the point is that GOG and their developers are still profitable enough to keep doing it anyway. And there's a lot of piracy of stuff with DRM too.

https://marktext.app

I think GP meant "if you want to distribute a paid program, what's the alternative to DRM?", not "what's the alternative to Typora?".

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