Retrowave posted at 12:11PM Tue, 31 December 2019 - #4375094

I think it's totally absurd and deplorable to rent software, for the valid reason pointed out, and I will say it again in case you conveniently missed it on purpose ...

PUT BEFORE A COURT, NEITHER ADOBE NOR AUTODESK WOULD HAVE A VALID REASON FOR WHY, AFTER A CONSUMER HAS COVERED THE COST OF A PERPETUAL LICENCE, THEY SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED ONE.

If I were a judge, I would take the price they used to charge for a perpetual licence before the "subscription" system was introduced. I would then order that every consumer that has subscribed to that product, be granted, by law, a perpetual licence to that product, once their subscription has covered the cost of that perpetual licence.

Adobe and Autodesk would be free cry their heads off, because whether they like it or not, once the consumer covers the cost of a perpetual licence, they are entitled to that perpetual licence. The offering of a perpetual licence was no problem before the introduction of the "subscription" system, so they should have no problem supplying one under that system once the cost of a perpetual licence has been covered.

You'd be immediately overruled in this country (US) on appeal. Look, like it or not, this is NOT a socialist country, which, btw, does not mean what people seem to think it means. This is an internal business matter. If Bondware wants to go subscription, that's their choice and decision. Mine, at the moment, unless there's something extremely beneficial to me, either financially or legally, is not to use their software.

As you've argued elsewhere, there are too many free and open sourced alternatives for me to get stuck on that treadmill. And almost all of them work as good as, or better than this one.