If you keep lifetime bug fixes coming and all the features working for the old software, this might be fine but still feels dishonest (they didn’t answer my question of how long my version would be supported with bug fixes - especially as it crashes rather often1). You can argue it’s a new release, and lifetime was only for the old software. I understand the reason for the lifetime license might be to increase sales numbers before you sell the business.īut then you should honor that deal and let the customer use your software for a lifetime, and not make it stop working after a year. I also understand selling a business and the new owner has new priorities (the reason I tell all my CTO coachees they need everything in writing from their boss in their contract, a new boss will probably only honor what is written down, not spoken promises). I do understand the constraints of a business, and sometimes you need money right now, so you want to get all your future income from a customer and offer a lifetime license. In the end money for you but the downside of an unhappy customer running around, telling their story. So trying to get me on a subscription doesn’t make any sense at all. But I chose a one time lifetime license exactly because I don’t want a subscription. In this case even more sinister, offering a free subscription to get you on the subscription bandwagon - screw you twice. The person you’ve sold the lifetime license to will probably never update, because they hate you, there is no money in it for you anymore from that customer except you can hold them hostage. There is the saying that a happy customer doesn’t talk, but an unhappy customer spreads their bad experience to ten people. Visicom Media stands by the Lifetime customers and will continue to support them by arranging with the new owner for a total of two years of free subscription.” Standing by the lifetime customer by offering two years and dishonoring the lifetime license? I call that a “Weasel License” not a “Lifetime Premium License” as the lifetime of a weasel is two years (Can you believe that? I didn’t know either). One year after I’ve bought the Lifetime license, they released a new version and my Lifetime license effectively stopped working. Man圜am is a software that does several things, I needed it to be able to use a webcam in two applications at the same time. I’ve bought a Premium Lifetime license from Man圜am. I wanted to talk about customer relations and how to have a successful startup. ⌚ Why Everything Takes Longer and Longer in Growing Startups.Startup CEOs learned Engineering Management from Captain Kirk.Comparing SQL, SQL JSON, ORM and GraphQL performance in Golang.□ We see the AI Endgame for Software Engineering.The Simplicity of Single-File Golang Deployments. Selfhealing Code for Startup CTOs and Solo Founders.Scrum is no longer fit with remote work.How to Outsource Development Successfully.Remote Work and Fair Developer Salaries.Comparing Compiler Errors in Go, Rust, Scala, Java, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, and Elm.What Startups and Managers can learn from Brexit About Pay Rises And Customers.Musings about error handling mechanisms in programming languages.Our Fetish with Failover and Redundancy.Hosting a Website on Bunn圜DN - Radical Simplicity.Three Fundamentals of Software Estimation.Too Many Developers Get Refactoring Wrong.Keyboard with Display for Developers - Kwumsy K3.Development Speed: From Idea to Release in One Day.Man圜am licensing - a lesson on how not to treat customers | Amazing CTO
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