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by tillk 4840 days ago
Can you comment on compatibility.

For example, if I decide to buy VMware Fusion for a team of 6 developers today (Professional costs 45 EUR*6 = 270 EUR).

Will I have to spend the same amount each year again or are you going to support each version (and potential changes to the APIs) down the road? I have no idea how drastic changes are going to be from Fusion 5 to 6 and beyond.

From reading your announcement, it seems like your plugin is a one time fee. I've seen other companies try this business model for software only to replace it with a yearly license down the road. Any thoughts on this?

Does the email support include a response time, etc.?

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There may be an upgrade fee associated with new versions. I haven't decided yet. Even if there is, it won't be the full cost of the license.

I won't ever charge an annual license fee is because the long term business model of HashiCorp is _not_ licenses. This is just a way to keep going and have folks support Vagrant.

Email includes a 48 hour response time.

Contact me at mitchell@hashicorp.com and I'd love to talk to you about this in more detail.

And I forgot another — any thoughts on volume licenses? E.g. a pack of 10.