[Info-vax] vax vms licenses

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/22/2022 1:46 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-04-21, David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 20, 2022 at 9:01:27 AM UTC+12, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2022-04-19 at 18:05 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> IOW, with these time-limited production licences, if VSI goes bust,
>>>> then those licences will eventually stop working and hence so will
>>>> the customer systems those licences are installed on.
>>> That's particularly worrying and that's something VSI needs to be aware
>>> of *OR* VMS will go the way of dinosaurs for good.
>>
>> Yeah, this is kind of insane.
>>
>> VSIs biggest competitor does everything VMS can do, has overwhelming
>> network effects working in its favor *and* its free *and* its open-source.
>> And if all of that wasn't enough to encourage people to move off of VMS,
>> VSI has gone and made buying VMS more difficult and licensing more
>> onerous too.
> 
> I keep wondering if VSI has gone for a policy of short-term income at
> the expense of damaging long-term income and I hope that isn't the case.

They have obviously intended the opposite: they want to convert
short term one time revenue to long term recurring revenue.

How it actually works out is to be seen.

Arne