Dennis,
I know your question was for Tom, but I enjoyed reading your response and I will give my $0.02.
I agree with you Dennis, but I think a lot of people use the two terms, licensing and subscription, interchangably. Thank you for your thoughts.

Sincerely,
Einar
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>Tom,
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>You mentioned subscription but Einar did'nt mentioned that in any way in his original post.
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>So to me this means that you make a direct relation from subscription to paying a license fee per year to continue to use a given software.
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>The difference I see between the two models is this:
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>Subscription : You pay an amount to have the right to use a software. You stop paying and you can't use it no more.
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>License : You bought a software but that software will always evolve so you pay a license to get all the updates, patches... for a year. You stop paying and you'll have to keep using the version you presently use with the possible bugs and you won't have access to the updates until you pay again for another license.
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>You agree with that?