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| 01-06-08 / 00:09 : Samples libraries / license : scandalous ? (cjed) |
| Some companies like BestService may allow some arrangements about their restrictive licenses when the user isn't satisfied and wants to resell the software. Basically these licenses don't allow this (or when they permit this case, the companies add dissuasive license transfert fees....). So with a product like Synthogy Italian Grand (and many other), the only choice (liberty) left is to remove the samples library from the hard disk (to gain space at least). Not only we cannot return back a software when we aren't pleased with it (even considering we couldn't test it before - even in shops -, due to their size and number. It isn't the same with emulation plugins where evaluation versions can be provided at download), but we also have no protection of consumer basic rights here . As we can read on purpose on that thread, buying a (hardware) instrument (synth, expander) allows to keep a value, and then to buy later a better one without to have to paid the whole (thanks to reselling). It is what allowed me to go from the PSS270 to the D20. So, as that is said in the thread, samples libraries are to the instruments, what a driving card (license) is to a car. Since Roland is up to the quality path with its new Fantom G and RD-GX (it seems they have new great converters back, after 10 years of bad choices and marging goals), and its SRX-12 Electric Piano, hardware could come back stronger. |
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