• cmeu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      18 days ago

      I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing doom on pc and it was pretty clear then who the rights holder is…

      They just couldn’t remove access, so it felt a lot less like I was “renting” the privilege

    • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      I used to be an account manager for scientific software. We were pretty explicit on the limitation of support we would give on old licenses