Business·February 18, 2026·5 min read
On owning your assets
Subscriptions expire. Licenses don't have to. Our case for lifetime, transferable asset licenses in an era of perpetual rent.
Noor Ahmadi
Editor-in-chief
Every software tool we use today is trying to become a subscription. We understand the logic, and we've paid for many of them ourselves. But assets — the building blocks of work — deserve to be owned.
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