[Info-vax] VSI Subscription Licensing Exchanges

[Dave Froble]

On 5/25/2021 4:12 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/25/2021 4:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 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.
>
> And maybe they could make the actual license follow extension model, so
> it would be:
> * you pay 5X for a license 21-25
> * next year you pay X for a license 25-26 (extension license)
>
> Or whatever. The point is simply that customers know they have
> AVG=4.5 MIN=4.0 MAX=5.0 left which is better than
> AVG=0.5 MIN=0.0 MAX=1.0 and AVG=2.5 MIN=0.0 MAX=5.0 for
> normal 1 and 5 year contracts.
>
> Arne
>

How easy would it be to replace 50 years of app development in less than 
5 years?  Perhaps significantly less.

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