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Dependencies and resilience

There are more than 2.1 million NPM packages and over 500,000 PyPI projects. I'm worried that this might have implications on how we run software companies.

As Unity had previously charged a subscription fee for each plan, this move was met with immediate outrage with the prime concern that the system could be abused with repeat installs to punish developers. Independent developers are hit the hardest as switching software so quickly is extremely difficult, especially as all of the tooling from libraries to game editor to distribution, even programming language, can change. Even though the boiling frog analogy is false, 6 if the water gets hotter slowly enough, will developers or studios not feel as much pressure to switch engines, allowing Unity to extract ever-increasing profits?

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