I&#x27;d point out that &quot;software subscriptions&quot; and &quot;software keeps working even if you don&#x27;t pay&quot; can both be in place.<p>For something like this, it&#x27;s not a half-bad business relationship; the incentives are well aligned for everybody.<p>For something as fundamental as build software, I&#x27;d be nervous about committing to anything where whether I can use the software I already have in two years is in somebody else&#x27;s hands. I really want to be able to squirrel away complete build environments and know I can build the thing I sold two years ago again if I have to release a &quot;my business may die if I don&#x27;t&quot; update. Remember, in two years, the &quot;somebody else&quot; <i>may not exist to give me permission</i>. Then what?<p>The incentives here aren&#x27;t so good if access to the software is actively being removed for non-payment... the vendor is extracting small values from their customers by forcing their customers to take hidden, but actually quite staggeringly enormous, business risks.