{"id":351,"date":"2013-12-23T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2013-12-28T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T07:38:19","slug":"what-to-wish-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"What to wish for Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In software licensing you rarely think of a free wish or what would make you feel like Christmas. The environment of IT and, in particular, of license models and rules is far from wonders, for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>But think of a few drastic changes that are no wonders in other subject areas, like the car business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only pay maintenance for the software <strong>you use<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Only start paying maintenance when you use the software <strong>productively<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Let the vendor send a <strong>fresh vendor price<\/strong> list when a new license product is launched<\/li>\n<li>Get advance notice from the vendor about policy\/model changes, <strong>including hints<\/strong> what that means for you<\/li>\n<li>Sell off unused licenses in a <strong>second-hand<\/strong> market<\/li>\n<li>Shift the <strong>burden of proof<\/strong> for software compliance to the vendor<\/li>\n<li>Let the vendor execute your product update to remove faults and <strong>return a tested live system<\/strong> as part of maintenance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It might take years to get there, but Christmas is a time when such wishes can be pronounced, for the least! Until this becomes factual, some of you might drop by <a title=\"Regain control of the licensing jungle!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.license12.com\" target=\"_blank\">License12<\/a> to get a first sight of what transparent licensing can look like.<\/p>\n<h1><strong>Merry Christmas and a Happy New Licensing Year!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santa_Piggy_cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-352 aligncenter\" alt=\"Lizzy's Christmas Dreams\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santa_Piggy_cropped-1024x883.jpg\" width=\"368\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santa_Piggy_cropped-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Santa_Piggy_cropped-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In software licensing you rarely think of a free wish or what would make you feel like Christmas. The environment of IT and, in particular, of license models and rules is far from wonders, for the most part. But think of a few drastic changes that are no wonders in other subject areas, like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,17,13],"tags":[30,54,26,55,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doctor-license.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}