I'm not talking about the whole cloud going poof , I'm talking about companies who eventually put the axe to something . If a software is installed and registered to a computer then the company could die , change strategies etc , except usually that doesn't affect a software that is fully installed on a computer . Though that may sound hypercritical of what I said earlier about my older installs , so most times it stays intact

i'm sure a lot of delcam users were excited to see what autocad would do with those softwares when they bought them out . now they are orphans