Soens,
Good fun and laughs, but you do got a valid point. Like in the respect and whatever to our hosts allowing us to post on these forums.
Irreverence has been my trademark in this life and will not likely change. Trying to do what is proper, but will probably not last for long until reverting back to hell fire and brimstone.
Will not mean much in the long term, but one of the flagship moral high grounds of Cakewalk was that you had the license in your hand. There with the Reapers, Minimal Systems, others that carved out an ethic that the end point user was okay with a serial number.
ZTA was cool, but the upgrade is now beyond my control. Did the upgrade, but a different feel. I don't own it no more. It is up to Cake to allow activation, or not.
This all will be looked on as the good old days ten years from now. When there will be no more ownership of anything software. Monthly subscription to a Cloud connection. At the will of the developer to pull the plug. It is coming...
John