Upcoming Changes to Unraid OS Pricing
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Unraid is an operating system that brings enterprise-class features for personal and small business applications. Configure your computer systems to maximize performance and capacity using any combination of OS, storage devices, and hardware.

Per the pricing plan, all licenses are forever licenses, but the lowest two tiers only offer 1 year of updates.

After that you can choose to renew, or continue with your current version.

If you do not like subscriptions, there still a lifetime plan, but at a higher pricepoint.

All existing plans are grandfathered in.

Full announcement form Lime: https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

Note: I have mixed emotions about this, but I’m seeing a lot of rage bait, and if we’re going to rage we might as well have our facts straight.

If you haven’t subbed already and are interested, check out the unraid community at !unraid@reddthat.com. We are already discussing it over there too.

  • WalnutLum@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    9 months ago

    Former sublime text user here. Eating popcorn and chuckling at “lifetime license”

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    ESXi VMWare virtual machine hypervisor
    NAS Network-Attached Storage
    Plex Brand of media server package
    ZFS Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity

    4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    I’m fine with this. The old model was great and unsustainable. They are switching with the explicit goal of not taking VC money, which is a good thing in any context.

    • tiramichu@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      My biggest problem is security updates.

      The “x years of upgrades” model is okay when it’s for an app, where you can just keep using it with the old feature set and no harm is done.

      But Unraid isn’t an app, it’s a whole operating system.

      With this new licensing model, over time we will see many people sticking with old versions because they dont want to pay to renew - and then what happens when critical security vulnerabilities are found?

      The question was already asked on the Unraid forum thread, and the answer from them on whether they would provide security updates for non-latest versions was basically “we don’t know” - due to how much effort they would need to spend to individually fix all those old versions, and the team size it would require.

      It’s going to be a nightmare.

      Any user who cares about good security practice is effectively going to be forced to pay to renew, because the alternative will be to leave yourself potentially vulnerable.