Ian Farlow

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Each feature release will be paid, but you are not required to purchase every update, in the same way you are not required to purchase a perpetual license every year. This is incredible. You want...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 14:11
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• 72 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Can I inquire as to why you didn't release this information right before the 23 upgrade rather than right after? I believe that answer is quite obvious to everyone thus I call "BS" on your content...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 15:27
• 35 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Can I request my money back... This would be nice as I would like mine back as well having just upgraded to 23, but it's not likely to happen.

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 14:48
• 20 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Personally I don't see what's wrong with this move. It's industry standard to withhold feature updates to the next major release. Many software companies do it the same way. If you don't need the ...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 15:50
• 17 votes

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Yes, but you do get a year of feature updates for having bought early so that’s not really any different that the old model economically speaking... For most of 2023 only. From September 30, 2023...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 17:03
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• 16 votes

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3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

This is actually a very reasonable alternative to the subscription only offering. Is it, though? Considering that we would only get fixes for the minor version that we have purchased (16.1.x fixe...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 16:55
• 16 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Before I am chased after with spears and pitchforks—hear me out. Let's wait for the final details on February 1, 2023 for our C1PRO collective to pass judgement on Phase One / Capture One. I've g...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 19:53
• 15 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

I think a many annoyances can be avoided if Capture One doesn't wait until February 2023 for the announcement of the 'new loyalty scheme'  I think it's very telling that Capture One are comfortab...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 16:59
• 13 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

I just browsed around the Capture One web site and I can't find any reference to this change except in this article, and the article appears to be well hidden. For example, I see nothing on the mai...

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• Ian Farlow
• December 07, 2022 14:37
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• 11 votes

1. Activation & Purchases
2. License Policy
3. New License Model: Changes to the way licensing, updates, and upgrades work

Capture One would do well to look up Trust Thermocline, read about it, and understand it before it's too late.

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• Ian Farlow
• December 06, 2022 19:08
• 9 votes