link to original tweet below the fold
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I hope at this point that everyone recognizes that "perpetual licensing with free updates" is a monetization plan that companies use only when they expect to be moving on to other products in a couple years, so they're not continuing to sink payroll into a product that's already been purchased by almost as many people as will ever purchase it
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I'm not saying you can't successfully negotiate a transition from perpetual licensing to subscription software when one of the big selling points among your userbase is "you don't have to subscribe to it!", but you definitely have to try harder than "well you need to buy a perpetual license, and also subscribe to an Update Pass to get access to the most recent major version (if you bought a perpetual license to the old version) and feature updates (if you bought a perpetual license to any version), and also the perpetual license doesn't come with any Update Pass time for free"
