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Companies are not your friend (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean with perpetual fallback license?

[–] con_fig@programming.dev 52 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you stop the subscription, you don't get upgrades. But you keep whatever the last version you had, it's not locked out by a license check.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 6 months ago

That’s good, I think that’s a much better and fairer model than being locked out completely of a thing that you did pay for.

[–] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Basically when you buy your subscription you also get perpetual access to the current X.Y.Z version + any future bugfixes (Z). So if you stop paying next year you still have access to the version from when your started your subscription.

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Ah, makes sense , thanks!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca -5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I subscribe for 10 years then can't afford it any more I'm rewarded with a 10 year old version of the software? It should be the version that was current when you finished your subscription.

[–] reflectedodds@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago (1 children)

as soon as you pay for 12 consecutive months, you will receive this perpetual fallback license providing you with access to the exact product version for when your 12 consecutive months subscription started.

So at most your software will be 1 year old.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

That's not so bad. Thank you for the clarification.