They'll say something like "Oh, that's just our rascally little lawyers putting things in contracts nobody really reads, don't worry about it."
I notice that Eagle reps repeatedly state that "Autodesk Eagle" (specifically not calling it Eagle 8 ) is not an "upgrade" from Eagle 7, therefore the part of the Autodesk contract that says your old license is revoked and you must destroy your old versions of Eagle upon upgrading to the new version...doesn't apply. So don't worry about that part of the contract, it's a new product not an upgrade.
Yet my Eagle 7 just told me a couple days ago that I'm now using an outdated version of Eagle, an upgrade to Version 8 is available.
Can't trust anything they say about such matters. Jorge and Ed will be awesome as always about tech support but everyone else is being misleading about all other aspect of this.
Matt cannot seriously believe that we'd accept the explanation that Autodesk made a 30 million dollar purchase without knowing EXACTLY what the roadmap was for at least the year following the purchase. It's out of the question that they didn't know they were going to make it subscription-based from the very beginning.