If 1Password6 is sold as a software product, then I would have no expectation of free patches or upgrades if it no longer integrated with newer versions of other software owned and changed by other companies. That is, what if the problem is not that the licensed software product itself has changed but that the surrounding software ecosystem around the software product has changed?Įdit: to me it would matter a lot if 1Password6 was sold to you as a software _product_ or an ongoing _service_. Under the terms of your lifetime license and warranty for your car, would you expect the car manufacturer to convert your diesel powered car to run on electricity?
In one year's time, the government introduces new regulation to outlaw diesel cars and require all cars to be converted to run on electricity. Suppose you purchase a diesel powered car, the purchase price includes a lifetime license to use the car (it sounds insane to need to explicitly state this, such is the wonderful world of software licensing) and let's say the purchase price even includes a lifetime warranty for manufacturing defects. I'll push the car licensing analogy down the road to a slightly ridiculous destination: > feels like at least the life time of a car. I think the word "supporting" here is doing rather a lot of work - in this case by "supporting" we'd mean "releasing a new version of the software that is compatible with the backwards incompatible changes introduced by chrome 99".įor most perpetual software licenses I have seen that can be purchased with a single one-off payment, you get a perpetual license for to a single version of the software, which specifically does not include free updates to the latest version.
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