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I think people buying a “perpetual” licence might not expect it to work forever, but at the same time could rightly expect that it was licenced indefinitely. I

by Closi 6y ago

I think people buying a “perpetual” licence might not expect it to work forever, but at the same time could rightly expect that it was licenced indefinitely. If you buy software you expect all the dependencies to be licensed with the same timespan as the product. The issue here is that the dependencies weren’t perpetually licenced, but the software was, which is pretty bullshitty.

tomc1985 6y ago
The expectation is that if most other variables within your control are held constant, then the software should continue to work... perpetually. I don't get this idea that people expect this stuff to be temporary. The code itself is eternal and if you can control for changes it should be able to run forever.