[flowerbreeze]

As a user, this is great news. I think that the artificial lock-in to services that have near zero cost of on-boarding and off-boarding is not what nice companies should do.

As an entrepreneur, this is amazing news! This means users can now more easily switch to my superior service.

At least this is how I choose to see it. It seems to encourage healthy competition and I'd rather compete on the service quality and value than the cleverness of my contracts and discounts. I'm sure it will hurt the bottom line of some companies, but I'm not sure it's a bad thing.

[bilekas]

Absolutely, companies who remain stagnant will fall behind if they don't offer something as good as or better than competition. Only shareholders who are concerned about "guaranteed income" regardless of its sources will not like this imo.

[spwa4]

... of course it's the EU. It won't be enforced against large companies. I mean, it seems to me pretty obvious that this outlaws microsoft office. And yet, it's september, and ...

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/963184/microsoft-365-pers...

https://www.coolblue.nl/en/product/952796/adobe-photoshop-el...

Seems to me these trivially violate just about every condition talked about in this article ... yet it's still for sale with no way to cancel and get your money back. Am I missing something?

In fact this store only sells subscription software. That's the only thing available. Non-cancelable, of course. And there's plenty of technical and bundling barriers to switching.

[raverbashing]

Yeah the only people who would think this is bad are Adobe and companies pulling similar shenanigans