It would be rather hard to sell one time software today and then sell an update once a year. Why? Because most software is in the cloud or has a great dependenc

It would be rather hard to sell one time software today and then sell an update once a year. Why? Because most software is in the cloud or has a great dependence on at least a backend in the cloud. I think it is more difficult (and dumb, from a security/quality perspective) to have multiple versions of the backend, with different patches and features applied depending on version bought.