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Of course you can sue. I can’t imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars on this license and then losing it after just over 10 years.

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Was it really tens of thousands? Looks like 1password 7 standalone was $50, not sure what it used to be when the standalone license was the only option.

Oh, I was thinking this guy wouldn't make a federal case out of $50 that he got 10+ years of value out of lol.

I think a small-claims case would be more appropriate. No need to put down large amounts of money to do that.

No, I meant that I thought this guy must've paid 10s of thousands for this license that he can no longer use. Because why would he be thinking about suing anyone unless he really feels aggrieved over the amount of money plus 10 years+ of use he got.

Ah, I see. I thought that he was upset because of the principle of the thing, not because he didn't feel that he got value.

It sounds to me like he's saying "a promise is a promise". And he's not wrong on that narrow point. I think that perhaps he took the promise as being more broad than it really was, though -- and any promise of "lifetime" anything will inevitably be broken anyway.

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