Not really... If Microsoft stopped selling Office licenses, people would resort to pirate practices. Licenses wouldn't be able to gain value as there wouldn't even be authorization servers for the licenses to even work properly...
There is no need for "licenses" when they can't even be used as there are no more servers to "authorize" them.
Good job on missing the whole point and highlighting another key difference of the business models. Why wouldn't there be servers to authorize the existing licenses? I didn't say that MS went out of business, I said they stopped selling them thus constricting the supply to the licenses already issued thus making them more valuable. Duh.
The cool thing about crypto-based licenses is that piracy isn't even an issue.
The point is veri is a scam due to the manipulation of price by Reggie and co...