>>>>I need to describe to a prospective customer that the product licensing requires annual license
>>>> fees. Is "annual license fee" a good term to use in this context? Or you would suggest a
>>>> different terminology?
>>>>TIA
>>>There's a movie that might give some a new perspective about this.
>>>It's called "Revolution OS" and is available on Netflix.
>>>You can also watch it on YouTube.
>>>The movie discusses "free software" and "open source" and why free software is different than open source, though they share many commonalities.
>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjaC8Pq9-V0
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>>Thank you. I may check out the movie. Although I don't believe in free. You get what you paid for. MHO.
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>Just so you know, I don't believe in "free" either when there are necessities of life. I do believe in free beyond necessity, however. I believing in being paid for the work I do when I have needs. When my needs are being met, then I consider the blessing an opportunity to be giving and generous, as God is to all.
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>And I further believe that in the area of digital works, once I've been paid for my labor the thing is now created. It exists and can be copied to everybody. There is no longer a reason for me to continue making money off that product without additional effort because I was already paid to create it.
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>I do not have an issue with selling maintenance because you're selling a service. I do believe service-on-demand should be the rule, however. If someone wants to hire your labor as a full-time service provider then that becomes your job and you operate at / near the level of breaking even. But selling the product over and over is something I do not believe in. I do not believe God intended us to continue to make money off one time prior efforts in the area of digital things, where the mechanics of creating one is essentially the same as creating a trillion copies.
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>My view is we should be paid for our labor. We should not be paid beyond that. When someone pays us for service, they are again paying us for our labor.

I still find this a flawed approach. Why not sell your software a bunch of times, then use the proceeds to fund other bible-thumping projects of some sort if that's what you want to do instead of selling yourself short like that? Sell it a bunch of times create large business employee a bunch of people. If you can help more people by doing it this way then perhaps it's the best way to go about it. Example - Bill Gates - who's made billions re-selling same software over and over, has given more money to charity than any other human in history, and his foundation has..for the most part, completely eradicated a disease (they will completely soon) and if I'm not mistaken that's the 2nd time in history that's ever been pulled off. Sure makes a lot more sense than if he would of handed out windows OS source code for free then sat back and did nothing else but feel good about himself thinking he'd done some wonderful thing.

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