Actually, its been going on for years.... (Score 1)

Interestingly enough, this sort of thing began at least a year ago. Autodesk posthumously revoked the sale of licenses on their CAD products last summer. If you ended up with an extra seat you could no longer sell it and transfer the license to the new owner. In the past many companies bought CAD packages and hired consultants to fill a short term work demand and then sold the extra seats after the project was completed. I know of a couple of small companies with $15k+ worth of coasters at the moment. What suprises me is that they did it with no regard to the previous policy that was in place. It strikes me as being a bit high handed to change the rules in the middle of the game.