Please forgive me if I am misunderstanding something...

I paid for a lifetime maintenance and updates when I first bought CBSubs. The way I understood it, it stated that I would get all future updates of CBSubs, and all future maintenance costs for CBSubs, for no further money.

I found out that if I choose to upgrade to more members (pre CBSubs 3.0), it would cost me double, to cover the lifetime maintenance. I can understand that, and was willing to pay it. It is not a 'future update' to upgrade the number of users.

However, if I understand it correctly, I am now getting only one year of CBSubs 3.0 (and future updates) for free, to compensate me for paying for the lifetime maintenance package... and after that I will be required to pay a yearly fee to continue using it and getting the updates I already paid for a lifetime of?

Please let me know if I am misunderstanding something, or if something was mis-typed, or what... lifetime is not "until we want to make more money", but until I or the product dies... a lifetime.

Yes We are also not happy with the new direction...

paying a maintenance which should guarantee against this exact sort of flagrant upgrade BS.

I finally renewed our maintenance to make sure I got upgrades...
now subs 2.x will be depreciated it appears and we're forced to move to 3.0...

going from encrypted to GPL'd and the change costs those of us that funded it again?

Lifetime Subs I'd be outraged!!! I'm just really pissed and now voicing my opinion as well.

Not good - understand they are all unlimited users and such but that isn't what I need. Less than 500 works fine for us, and will for years to come.

Probably count us out on continued support and use...

Bummed....

I have 2 lifetime CBsubs subscriptions. I was very close to buying a 3rd (glad I didn't).

Someone break this down for me - the CBsubs 3 is free to install, but to use it you have to pay a fee? Or just a support subscription (optional?)

Thanks for bringing this up and voicing what many CBSubs purchasers like me are probably feeling.

While the move to GPL is to be applauded, constantly changing the goal posts on licensing and expecting clients to pay each time doesn't inspire confidence in the developer.

I'll be more likely to check competing products before investing any more time or money in extensions that may be priced out of reach in future.

Softening the blow with a special offer doesn't really help and I'm advising all my CBSubs clients to stick with the current version in the meantime.

Neil.

Edit: Allowing exisitng CBSubs clients to upgrade for free would probably fix this.