[discussion] Schema of Valentina server licensing

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 6/20/03 2:17, Charles Yeomans at yeomans at desuetude.com wrote:

> As for "technology upgrades", what the subscription model means is that
> Paradigma is getting all of your money upfront for the next N
> "technology upgrades", which may or may not occur. So what I could well
> be paying for is some period of nothing but bug fixes that attempt to
> provide the software I thought I was purchasing originally.
> 
> Real Software, another apparent convert to a subscription model, has
> now gone one year since releasing a reliable major upgrade to
> REALbasic, although it looks like 5.2 may be that upgrade.  It seems to
> me that one advantage of subscription-based licensing is that it allows
> RS to do something big like implement a new compiler instead of
> continuing to patch the old code because they are unable or unwilling
> to spend the effort on the new compiler.  But if I were forced to pay
> in the interim to continue selling software I developed in 4.5, I'd be
> digging into Cocoa.

Yes Charles,

I agree that it is bad if you or me pay money on future but company foolish
you. 

I hope that after my last letter where I point that price of VDN will be
MUCH less of the price of goods that you get IMMIDALTY (!!!) you doubts will
go away. 

Yes?


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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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