COBOL is dead, long live COBOL.

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You need to sell on-prem to those people. No way a single byte of that sweet sweet poison is going to ever leave the corporate network boundary.

Bc you lose your optionality after leaving the company - terminated employees would need to decide whether or not to exercise their vested options within some post-termination window (typically 30-90 days)