I think the software world is heading in the same direction as music - not making the millions anymore, so having to resort to weird and unusual sales solutions to establish a predictable income... I don't mind renting, but then I want 110% reliability and compatibility. Just like a rental car - you give me a bad one, you'll sure as hell hear from me.
 
Next we'll be renting air and fresh water too.. Oh, wait, Nestle is already trying to justify that logic.
 

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Welp no good deed goes unpunished.  I went through the process with Gobbler/slate and, after signing in at Gobbler, was told to plug my iLok into a port...which it is...I and power up my DAW...which I did.  Only now I get an error dialog saying Sonar cannot open because it's missing a string of letters and numbers ".dll" file.  I tried restarting.  No love.  Now I'm updating to Glouscester.  Has anyone else had this happen?

Yep this happened to me I typed the missing dll's into Google and reinstalled the Microsoft runtime 2013 thingy that I was pointed to.. Did the trick.