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Perpetual licenses are just scams. It's always startup type trick to get new clients during on-boarding phase for startups. It should be forbidden. It was similar for uber when they were undercutting opponents with their under the cost prices
"Perpetual licenses" are what used to be called "normal sales." Every "licensing" scheme except perpetual ones are scams!
No, they are just impossible to offer. Imagine such a license given to company which can "live" for centuries. Impossible. Perpetual licenses are almost impossible to offer. If they are possible it's calculated that 99.999% of them will last than the expected timefrime np 3 years
Perpetual licences are usually given for a certain version of a program though, with updates for a limited amount of time. You don't get the new version of the software.
You can, however, continue to use that old piece of software in perpetuity.