[Info-vax] VSI Subscription Licensing Exchanges

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/25/2021 3:59 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <s8jhon$1c4i$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> Arne has suggested paying for additional years up front (and therefore
>>>> getting those licences early as a result).
>>>
>>> How would that actually work?  Presumably the goal is to have, say, 5
>>> years after VSI goes bust to sort out some sort of alternative, and
>>> presumably VSI doesn't want to sell licenses with no expiration because
>>> they would rather have a steady revenue stream.  Just having it expire
>>> after 5 years wouldn't work if VSI goes bust after 4œ years.  Perhaps
>>> one could buy a 5-year license every year.
>>
>> Yes - the idea was a rolling 5 year license.
>>
>>>                                             However, that would mean
>>> that a customer would then have several valid licenses, and apparently
>>> VSI is also concerned about too many licenses being in circulation.
>>> (Unloading and deleting the old one won't cut it, since people have
>>> backups.)
>>
>> You have a license 21-25 for node A and you receive a license
>> 22-26 for node A.
> 
> Presumably if a license for 5 years costs X, then when buying another
> one which has a four-year overlap one would pay only X/5.

Yes.

Or to do it the other way around.

If a one year license cost X then a 5 year license cost 5*X and
a 1 year license extension of a 5 year license cost X.

Arne