I recently served as a panelist at TechWeek Chicago where the topic of discussion was subscription licensing. Many application producers and device manufacturers are diving head-first into adopting a subscription license model in their software licensing portfolio, so I thought I’d lay-out a few key areas to help frame the discussion:

1. Perpetual v. Subscription

As we were sharing our thoughts on subscription licensing it occurred to me that some in the audience didn’t realize what some of the basic differences were between perpetual and subscription licensing models from a software monetization perspective – so here’s a quick primer on some key differences between the two:

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