Story: Licensing anger driving users towards Linux
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 9 November 2004, 1:43 PM)
Licensing has gotten out of hand. It really started with Microsofts shift to software assurance. If you look at SA and the methods MS used to "entice" companies to use it (threatening audits and legal action is even one license was out of strict compliance) it really was no more than a protection scam. They used the same tactics to shake down their customers that organized crime has been using in protection rackets for decades.
Then they wonder when people are mad and laughingly wonder why people can't understand that they have a right to make as much profit as the market will bare.
Personally, I will use OSS and only use commercial if there isn't any other alternative.....and that includes using nothing at all.
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Story: Licensing anger driving users towards Linux
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oh your not wrong about the Licensing twists Micro... Samuel -
Allow me to add fuel to the fire...
First read thi... Arthur B.
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Licensing has gotten out of hand. It really start... Anonymous -
The home user is also getting fed up with the Micr... roland
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I disagree entirely with the comments made. Sure M... Jesse James
