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Propellerhead Software was acquired by private equity firm Verdane in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reason Studios - Verdane |url=https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Jun 2025 |website=Verdane |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250912025312/https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |archive-date=12 Sep 2025}}</ref> and renamed to Reason Studios in mid-2019. After decades of sole adherence to a traditional perpetual-license and upgrade-pricing model, in January 2021 they introduced a subscription service. This is not unprecedented, and sometimes welcomed for price accessibility, but also widely resented as increasingly industry-standard practice for production software such as [[Adobe]]'s Creative Cloud subscriptions. Reason does maintain availability of 'perpetual licenses' at this time, and their subscriptions do not employ contracts with early termination fees like Adobe's.

Propellerhead Software was acquired by [[wikipedia:Private_equity_firm|private equity firm]] Verdane in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reason Studios - Verdane |url=https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Jun 2025 |website=Verdane |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250912025312/https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |archive-date=12 Sep 2025}}</ref> and renamed to Reason Studios in mid-2019. After decades of sole adherence to a traditional perpetual-license and upgrade-pricing model, in January 2021 they introduced a subscription service. This is not unprecedented, and sometimes welcomed for price accessibility, but also widely resented as increasingly industry-standard practice for production software such as [[Adobe]]'s Creative Cloud subscriptions. Reason does maintain availability of 'perpetual licenses' at this time, and their subscriptions do not employ contracts with early termination fees like Adobe's.

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-Propellerhead Software was acquired by private equity firm Verdane in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reason Studios - Verdane |url=https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Jun 2025 |website=Verdane |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250912025312/https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |archive-date=12 Sep 2025}}</ref> and renamed to Reason Studios in mid-2019. After decades of sole adherence to a traditional perpetual-license and upgrade-pricing model, in January 2021 they introduced a subscription service. This is not unprecedented, and sometimes welcomed for price accessibility, but also widely resented as increasingly industry-standard practice for production software such as [[Adobe]]'s Creative Cloud subscriptions. Reason does maintain availability of 'perpetual licenses' at this time, and their subscriptions do not employ contracts with early termination fees like Adobe's.
+Propellerhead Software was acquired by [[wikipedia:Private_equity_firm|private equity firm]] Verdane in 2017<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reason Studios - Verdane |url=https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Jun 2025 |website=Verdane |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250912025312/https://verdane.com/portfolio/reason-studios/ |archive-date=12 Sep 2025}}</ref> and renamed to Reason Studios in mid-2019. After decades of sole adherence to a traditional perpetual-license and upgrade-pricing model, in January 2021 they introduced a subscription service. This is not unprecedented, and sometimes welcomed for price accessibility, but also widely resented as increasingly industry-standard practice for production software such as [[Adobe]]'s Creative Cloud subscriptions. Reason does maintain availability of 'perpetual licenses' at this time, and their subscriptions do not employ contracts with early termination fees like Adobe's.
 ==Incidents==