HKHan99 posted at 5:15AM Fri, 04 October 2019 - #4365801

structure posted at 1:46AM Fri, 04 October 2019 - #4365634

Seriously, you cannot expect a new company to Follow the licence terms the old company set because they were not the new companies terms., Bondware have been doing their absolute best to minimize the loss of functionality for ALL users, which I am sure you can appreciate, given the thousands of different setups, preferences etc. Is not entirely possible.

Actually, you can expect the new company to follow the old company's license terms. There's an implied contract to do so when they bought the product. Regardless of that, it would have been a good business move to do so. This transition is not going very smoothly for a lot of people and as more people discover that they can't use the software that they bought from Smith Micro, that number is going to grow, unless Bondware is willing to make people whole in some fashion satisfactory to those people. If they can get their act together quickly and deliver a superior product without piling on additional problems, these people probably won't cause a lot of trouble, but as the current owner of the intellectual property of Poser, Bondware won't be able to stay out of court even if people sue Smith Micro over this. I hope Bondware can do this, but I think they've made quite a few unforced errors already.

Actually, Bondware's best business move would have been to extend all the licenses to lifetime as previous versions are. Hopefully, they return to past practice going forward, or I probably won't be going forward with them. I was unemployed for almost a couple of years with no internet access for Poser. As it was, I bought Poser 2014 through my local library. Still, I didn't have internet for almost two years on my home machine. If their phone home license had been in place then, all my previous versions of Poser would probably be dead.