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A comment on Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, how can I value it?.

Re:Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, ho... by mtmail on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:36PM (#16487830)
Try to offer code escrow (for a fee) instead. Larger companies are worried that small services go out of business. In case you close your business (or get hit by a bus) the customer then has the legal right to get a copy of the code from the escrow.
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Re:Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, ho... by frankferma on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:57PM (#16488025)
This is one of the things I want to avoid, I don't want to be out off business and generate a problem for my current client, the service is critical for them
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Re:Ask HN: A company wants to buy me a perpetual license, ho... by Someone on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:36PM (#16488314)
But choice is between, both currently and with a perpetual license, “if I get hit by a bus, my customer is hosed” and, with escrow, ”if I get hit by a bus, my customer at least has a fighting chance, however small”.

With escrow, your customer certainly isn’t worse of.

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