Quite frankly, i think the discussion is merely academic. What CL did is done. They're not the first, and wont' be the last. I don't mind security like requiring our sn's to get the upgrade, or support, etc., but the type of security that will render the program unuseable on a hardware upgrade flat out sux! I still have some old floppy disk programs that serve a specific function. They are no longer supported by the companies cus the companies are long since dead and gone. But the floppies still work. So what happens when CL decides in the P7 days that P5 just isn't going to be supported any more? Its buy new or die cuz you won't be able to reinstall P5 on a new machine. The point is, if we bought it, we bought it and we shouldn't loose it cuz time passes and some dang company controlled code won't be issued out any more.