Fuk Software as a service (SAAS) fuk horrible dubious practice & with little control from governments or consumer rights groups.
Lets start with SAAS,
Software as a service is mostly dubious by itself, but its far worse!!!
In the good old days, you buy the software, you get to keep it forever. Along the line. some greedy PoS thought, by charge once, when we can charge regularly, & also prevent you from passing down to someone else, & bypass consumer laws (service & products have different laws). YOu will be force to pay regularly or lose ability to use the software.
That is already horrible, but it get worse!!!! This happened to me when I reinstall my software due to PC crash. I have 2 software I cannot use anymore.
POS Autodesk, decided to change Maya creator to a new token type service, & now I cannot use it that was originally given to me as a replacement for ending another software as a service license Maya LT. A service costing me over 300€ a year. I was held to blackmail since my files for past 8 years will be NOT readable by any software except Maya base.
Also Painter, another software I bought before they sold their soul to Adobe & now charges it as a SAAS. Since I reinstall it, I can no longer use it!!!!! The original software required accessing their website to activate or use a license key, a physical file...which you get from their website, not a password you can screenshot. They shut down the website after moving to Adobe......so I cannot use it anymore. They said I can email them to ask for the licence key. I email on Friday, hopefully (not holding my breath though) I get a licence key next week.
I bought the original like for over 200bucks, & upgrade to v2 for 50 I think. Now under abobe, they want 55 a month!!!!! WTF.
But these are not the worst , the worst are from MS & Adobe. Did I mention Adobe again?
I reinstalled my Windows, & when I go to my MS account (thankfully) I notice that they AUTOMATICALLY add office 365 to my sub list, WTF!!!!! Thankfully I cancel beofre they can charge. How the F is that not dubious.
Now to my favorite company Adobe. I finally canceled my sub package which include Photoshop. I though that was end of the story, but Motherkuker Adobe did not just cancel my sub, which cost about 13€, as you would expect, it remove photoshop but switch me to a photo package that cost 12€ include cloud storage that I NEVER used before, & they have charged me for a year!!!!!! Luckily, I saw that when I log in my adobe account, & was shocked, & cancel immediately.
I have enough of BS from Autodesk & Adobe, & I paid them good money over the years. I am moving to Blender. The transaction will be painful, but it beat paying money to these PoS companies & get sht on.
Lets start with SAAS,
Software as a service is mostly dubious by itself, but its far worse!!!
In the good old days, you buy the software, you get to keep it forever. Along the line. some greedy PoS thought, by charge once, when we can charge regularly, & also prevent you from passing down to someone else, & bypass consumer laws (service & products have different laws). YOu will be force to pay regularly or lose ability to use the software.
That is already horrible, but it get worse!!!! This happened to me when I reinstall my software due to PC crash. I have 2 software I cannot use anymore.
POS Autodesk, decided to change Maya creator to a new token type service, & now I cannot use it that was originally given to me as a replacement for ending another software as a service license Maya LT. A service costing me over 300€ a year. I was held to blackmail since my files for past 8 years will be NOT readable by any software except Maya base.
Also Painter, another software I bought before they sold their soul to Adobe & now charges it as a SAAS. Since I reinstall it, I can no longer use it!!!!! The original software required accessing their website to activate or use a license key, a physical file...which you get from their website, not a password you can screenshot. They shut down the website after moving to Adobe......so I cannot use it anymore. They said I can email them to ask for the licence key. I email on Friday, hopefully (not holding my breath though) I get a licence key next week.
I bought the original like for over 200bucks, & upgrade to v2 for 50 I think. Now under abobe, they want 55 a month!!!!! WTF.
But these are not the worst , the worst are from MS & Adobe. Did I mention Adobe again?
I reinstalled my Windows, & when I go to my MS account (thankfully) I notice that they AUTOMATICALLY add office 365 to my sub list, WTF!!!!! Thankfully I cancel beofre they can charge. How the F is that not dubious.
Now to my favorite company Adobe. I finally canceled my sub package which include Photoshop. I though that was end of the story, but Motherkuker Adobe did not just cancel my sub, which cost about 13€, as you would expect, it remove photoshop but switch me to a photo package that cost 12€ include cloud storage that I NEVER used before, & they have charged me for a year!!!!!! Luckily, I saw that when I log in my adobe account, & was shocked, & cancel immediately.
I have enough of BS from Autodesk & Adobe, & I paid them good money over the years. I am moving to Blender. The transaction will be painful, but it beat paying money to these PoS companies & get sht on.