Update Subscription: Embarcadero policy seriously this bad?

[Al T 12]

I want to verify this information is true or not?

 

A email to me about the subscription policy:

 

"As per Embarcadero policy, maintenance is a continuous circle that you have to renew every year and there cannot be a lapse between maintenance and after expiration, you have to renew the subscription the very next day

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As you did not renew last year, if you chose to renew then you have to go for the 2-year option. I have also added a 5% discount in the attached quote. If you renew it for 1 year, it will again expire within 2 months (COMING OCTOBER).

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

Thank you!"

 

So, if you buy Delphi... If you lapse in renewals, you must pay for previous years??

 

[Lajos Juhász 293]

(I believe earlier if you have had no valid licence there was no possibility to renew the previous one. The only option was to buy a new licence.)

[gkobler 38]

1 hour ago, Al T said:

So, if you buy Delphi... If you lapse in renewals, you must pay for previous years??

Pay for an new license

[Brandon Staggs 277]

2 hours ago, Al T said:

So, if you buy Delphi... If you lapse in renewals, you must pay for previous years??

This is hardly uncommon. Otherwise why pay for maintenance, ever, until you "need" it?

[FredS 138]

5 hours ago, Al T said:

if you chose to renew then you have to go for the 2-year option

 

I didn't renew last February and in the good bye letter from EMBT there was something about being able to reactivate it..

 

I don't have it handy but pretty sure there was a period specified when it can be reactivated.

Maybe you better clarify that with subscriptions..