>>>>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.

What Victor said. Also, you see I have not been paid for my software yet. I spent years and years developing it and still work on improving. Each customer - when they buy the software - only pay for a fraction of the time I put in. Maybe it would be different if I were paid by a customer to create something and they paid for all my time at a reasonable rate. Then, maybe, I would not be entitled to make money again and again. But my business model is different.
Thank you.

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