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[Frank S]

I feel like there is a significant difference between service subscriptions and what seems to be a trend these days of disabling key product features after purchase.

The way I see it if I buy something it is mine forever. I might not continue to pay for upgrades which should be my choice but what's mine should remain mine and function the same as the day I purchased it.

I have a cad program that is supposed to have a perpetual never expiring license I had to store the core on a backup flash drive since nothing comes on DVDs any more but if my machine dies I cannot install it on a new machine without first having it disabled on my old machine, then letting the supplier provide my new machine wiht the key. And recently I fired up my machine that the program now sits on I hadn't used it a quite a while but as luck would have it I happened to open the program and found a message that if I didn't re aactivate it in three days it would expire. That's bull hockey pucks.