I think it is very interesting question and the complicated issue.
 
Let say the institution has acquired the program/ software and has used for certain period of time. The institution is lucky if during the time the provider does merge with another vendor and if can, the new vendor continues provide support. What will happened when institute does not need anymore that IT product or license is expired?
How institution will keep the documents that were created by software with expired license, especially if the documents were created and are kept in electronic format?
May be, institution should start to think that software is good, but all information created should be transferred to "open source" format programs ???
 
Regards,
 
Alex Babin


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