For some months, I was using lean cli to try running a strategy locally. As I retooled a local environment for arm64 and containerd support (because lean doesn't provide it and wouldn't take support for it upstream), it seems something has been paywalled.
I now get the following from a command that previously ran fine:
```
lean live strat --brokerage "Interactive Brokers" --data-feed "Interactive Brokers" <creds truncated>
Downloading 'QuantConnect.InteractiveBrokersBrokerage.2.5.14608.nupkg'
Error: Module subscription not found, please update your preferences in www.quantconnect.com/pricing
```
Unfortunately, if QuantConnect is going to paywall features at its will, then it's not really open source now is it? The cost of trying to work with QuantConnect already seems high, so this notion of QuantConnect randomly paywalling features really breaks the freemium model.
Is it simply no longer possible to run this software locally?
Jared Broad
Hey Ryan!
There's an old cliche - "open source is free as in freedom, not free as in beer". You're 100% free to take the open-source and compile it from source for your purposes. The code is there, and the license is permissive. All open-source companies need to find ways to make their work sustainable to continue making it better, so we charge a small fee for convenient use of the technology (all bundled nicely with documentation out of the box).
The LEAN CLI and the Local VSCode GUI (coming soon) both work with the same seat-pricing system as the cloud – with a researcher seat, you'll get access to an easy-to-use, seamless technology that we work hard to make happen without needing to worry about building/maintaining plugins. This has been on the pricing page for more than a year.
However, if the $8/mo is too much, you can build it from sources and integrate the code yourself, and it will only cost you time.
I hope you'll support the project! Thank you for the understanding,
Best
Jared
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