And the time to evaluate for something you're releasing (vs staying in your control on SaaS) is significantly higher. Things that lock you in, especially betwee

And the time to evaluate for something you're releasing (vs staying in your control on SaaS) is significantly higher. Things that lock you in, especially between your released software and hosted services -- like authentication, installers/auto-update, and licensing (keygen) -- are even higher than that. It's just really hard to "undo" these things, both technically and because of the optics (user experience). Requiring your users to re-license their software is friction -- it burns user trust and costs a lot of time in support. 14 days is just too short to evaluate if the product will even meet your needs, let alone evaluate how much lock-in there is and what the path away could look like.