Subscriptions, rental software, whatever you want to call it are simply a further development of the trend for people demand to have something now rather than wait until they can afford it. At one stage if someone wanted for example new furniture they wait until they had saved enough to buy it. Then hire-purchase agreements came along, followed by credit cards and the whole explosion of consumer credit. Therefor if you can pay 10dollars and have something now rather than wait until you can afford 700dollars, that is what people will do. This has not been lead by business, business has just pandered to the desires of consumers.

And the biggest laugh about these arguments, is that elsewhere in other threads etc people are arguing that these applications are all about to be wiped out by open source software. How can people argue they are being put into slavery when there are free alternatives.

And when you look at the reality of slavery, both in the past and modern day slavery I think it is totally absurd and deplorable to use that term in the context that you can't buy the type of licence you want for certain software. Please get reel.