Is REAPER the current best long term choice? – Page 16 – Hosts & Applications (Sequencers, DAWs, Audio Editors, etc.) Forum

Life itself is unpredictable. Illnesses or other strokes of fate can change your life
from one day to the next. This also applies to “retirement”.

But what can be said with certainty about any “long-term security”: The fewer
protective mechanisms and activation arias there are, the more securely the
software will run in the future.

Just imagine: You want to remix a 10 year old song. Your client (or even yourself)
demands this. Then you have to install the old software from 10 years ago – and at
the latest with all the protection activations you get stuck.

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