Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
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You really need to read the license agreements more carefully when you install your software. Neither in the case of the SmartMusic Studio, nor in the case of Finale, have you purchased the software. Rather, for a one-time fee, you have acquired a non-exclusive right to use the software that MakeMusic! owns. Through 2k4, the fee was a one-time permanent fee, and there was little enforcement of any restrictions that existed with the license. With 2k4, MakeMusic! imposed restrictions on that license, limiting registered users of single user licenses to at most two registered installations. It is not difficult at all for me to envision MakeMusic implementing further restrictions on licenses up to, and including a drop-dead scheme at some point, under which that, and future versions of Finale will stop functioning after a certain elapsed time after installation.
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I realize I haven't purchased the software, but I do own a license to use Finale in its current state for an unlimited time.
The subscription scenario, where the software stops working after a deadline is passed without renewal is a scary one indeed, and one that I will fight off as best I can, even if it means going back to working with Fin2k3!
But the way you describe SmartMusic is what I had thought -- one way or another the files become useless unless you keep renewing your software subscription.
David
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