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Groxx on July 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Transmit 5

Just to add to the chorus of "you have nothing when you stop paying" / "it keeps working after they release v2", etc, let me toss in:

If the company shuts down (or gets acquired or simply stops supporting the software), subscription software stops working. Paid usually does not.

I've outlived too many useful products, and lost them entirely. I expect to continue to do so for a lot longer, so I avoid subscriptions-for-non-hosted-software like the plague it is.

voltagex_ on July 19, 2017 [–]

I dunno, my CCleaner installer checks my key against a server when I install it. Installers / serial checks like this are a single point of failure.

Groxx on July 20, 2017 | [–]

That is definitely true. Though that's another reason to avoid DRM whenever possible :) Which is not often, but oh-so-worth-it when it is.

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