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unRaid is NOT switching to a subscription model (unraid.net)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Per the pricing plan, all licenses are forever licenses, but the lowest two tiers only offer 1 year of updates.

After that you can choose to renew, or continue with your current version.

If you do not like subscriptions, there still a lifetime plan, but at a higher pricepoint.

All existing plans are grandfathered in.

Full announcement form Lime: https://unraid.net/blog/pricing-change

Note: I have mixed emotions about this, but I'm seeing a lot of rage bait, and if we're going to rage we might as well have our facts straight.

If you haven't subbed already and are interested, check out the unraid community at [email protected]. We are already discussing it over there too.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My biggest problem is security updates.

The "x years of upgrades" model is okay when it's for an app, where you can just keep using it with the old feature set and no harm is done.

But Unraid isn't an app, it's a whole operating system.

With this new licensing model, over time we will see many people sticking with old versions because they dont want to pay to renew - and then what happens when critical security vulnerabilities are found?

The question was already asked on the Unraid forum thread, and the answer from them on whether they would provide security updates for non-latest versions was basically "we don't know" - due to how much effort they would need to spend to individually fix all those old versions, and the team size it would require.

It's going to be a nightmare.

Any user who cares about good security practice is effectively going to be forced to pay to renew, because the alternative will be to leave yourself potentially vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

At which point such an user might already be looking at TrueNAS/DIY setups TBH