I won't be buying any RE plugins if licenses are non-transferable. I hope that you guys think this one over, and come to a conclusion sooner, rather than later.

Absolutely, but actually I think you guys have ended up in the same - or worse - position to most VST vendors, which is the opposite of your stated intention. Any commercial VST vendor will of course need to produce updates to account for OS changes, etc, or they will soon go out of business. Propellerhead is in exactly the same position. There's no difference there....

BUT the big difference is that Propellerhead is inviting us to put all our eggs in one basket - yours. And as you so: "so long as we're around". I have personally been in exactly the position you describe with a VST vendor that I purchased from - Kjaerhus Audio - who are no longer around. And when I change my computer I will no longer have access to using the very nice effects I purchased from them.

That said, my investment was only about £100 or so (in a sale). With RE the cumulative investment would, I suspect, be much higher for me, and for many others no doubt, with so many tempting goodies on the table! It's a level of investment that would be essentially a gamble in terms of trusting your ongoing business success.

Once again, I have no doubt (at present) that Propellerhead will continue to be a hugely successful business. But you have to admit it's a gamble that you are asking all your users to take from here on, and quite a significant one in terms of likely costs over the next few years. And who knows if the Euro crashes we could all be in a mess... Having experienced the annoyance of a vendor going out of business before, I rather prefer to spread my investment a little wider these days.

I do want to mention there's another side to it! If you buy a plug-in today it works on your system and all is well. Ponder if THAT company goes out of business - what happens when the next OS version comes? Or will you ever get 64-bit versions? An advantage of REs is that as long as we're around, the REs you've purchased will ALWAYS work - regardless of when you bought them.

In other formats, as you put it, you're only as future proof as the many many many companies. While I'm not saying one is better, there are things worth thinking about as upsides too regarding this.

I never understood that part about how is possible that someone can sell you something but then you can not resold it

It seems like a little dictatorship gesture. Isn't this illegal in some EU countries?

Welcome to the world of differences between physical goods and "intellectual" goods/licenses. There will likely be another decade or threetwo before these issues are ironed out uniformly throughout human society. Keep challenging it; that's what makes things get adjusted. The thing most needing to go? The fake contract that is the EULA (also knows as a sneak wrap license). Instead of it getting eliminated, it's been spreading to other markets/concepts.