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| | #REDIRECT [[Post-purchase EULA modification]] |
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| {{Merge|Seems to be a special case of modifying license terms after purchase. Could be covered as a subsection of more general article.|Retroactively amended purchase}}
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| “License euthanasia” is the practice of revoking perpetual licenses under the pretext that the company is looking out for the user’s best interest by forcing them to update to a later version. This term was coined by consumer-rights advocate [[wikipedia:Louis_Rossmann|Louis Rossmann]], who observed that [[Final Draft software activation|Final Draft]]’s description of an older version of its software as being “of advanced age” “made it sound like they’re doing the kind thing” by putting old software out of its misery.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV4VDvseIE&t=439s</ref>
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