Parachute Backup Acquired

Acquisitions make me reflexively wince but this company seems (at least from this distance) like a good steward for the software it acquires. And after reading Nick Heer's recent iCloud Photos post, this might be a good purchase, especially at this price.

Dang it! Just when I thought I found a good solution for photo backup. I’m already paying for too many software subscriptions, if this goes subscription, I’m out.

Now I’m considering how painful it would be to write an open source utility for this. I don’t need it to be pretty, I just need it to work reliably and run up warning flags if something breaks. I wish more of our “little utilities” that help make Mac great were open source. Sure, that would have reduced the compensation for the devs, but we wouldn’t have rug pulls all the time.

I need to look into getting a Tux tattoo at this point.

Sad news. The main feature that Leitmotif added to Kaleidoscope is subscription (with unfair model where I can't use app even when I've payed for it). Pretty sure this will happen to Parachute.

@rusavv I get not liking subscriptions, but they did add tons of features to Kaleidoscope.