They clearly detail that an internet connection is required to activate[0].
Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all.
Whenever I read such statements, I always find myself wondering: What's their plan for when the product is discontinued? It's a "when", not an "if", after all.
If you paid $15 and 10 years later that license no longer works, you got your money's worth, time for a new editor. Like we treat all paid software.
And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
You can't guarantee that even with DRM, since it's breakable.
> And once, the product is discontinued, they still could release an update disabling the license check.
They could, but what if they don't? It's not like they're legally obligated to escrow their source code in case they don't, or anything like that.
Since you purchased the licence from this very server, there's no point in worrying it'll be down, except you purchased it like 3yrs ago and would like to activate it now.
I feel that if you don't control your data, then you don't have your data. A license that might evaporate means your data exists at somebody else's whim. I'd move it out of that system fast.