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Much more than money? 80% of your reasons are about money. :) /All but the last one./

• diffeomorphism 7y ago
  No. None of these have to do with money. A license expires and I am at the sellers mercy whether I am allowed to get it extended. If it were libre I could instead find someone else to give my money to and keep using it. I want to use my software for something else. Again, I can try offering the company money to allow me to, but if they say no I am out of luck. Instead I can pay whoever I like to implement the necessary changes for me. Crippled functionality. Again, I can pay someone else to uncripple it and the original manufacturer has to compete with the uncrippled version. Moving software. That is admittedly only about licensing and kinda unrelated, but similar to the first one. It is nice that libre software often also is gratis but that is just a nice bonus.
  • jmiserez 7y ago
    >Moving software Even if you have a perpetual license valid on any computer, it may still be impossible to move the license/software to different hardware, if you legally can't debug/reverse engineer it and pay someone to fix the incompatibility.
    • rovr138 7y ago
      Run a VM with the latest OS that can run the app. You then keep that machine offline or whitelist the required traffic. This is not isolated and there are ways of making it work.
• deleted 7y ago
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