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Joe Pluta wrote:
.. I would just ask you what you think they should have done. They obviously couldn't continue to give it away for free, so what exactly did you expect them to do?
Well, since you asked. IBM is not blameless in getting customers into this situation so they should do something. Maybe just give people the option of paying under a subscription model instead of a purchase model. If purchase is $4,000+ and $400 a year maintenance let me subscribe and pay $800 a year which includes maintenance, and if I stop paying I stop having the right to use it. And do what Novell use to do and put the $400 a year subscription into a buy-out plan so at some point in the future (10 years) I get a license like I purchased it and drop to $400 a year maintenance.
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