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Second-hand Microsoft Licences Take Off
News A company that began trading in second-hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn has been attracting business from within the UK and internationally. Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
News Microsoft has stunned its reseller community by allowing a discount dealer to sell second-hand volume licences, opening the floodgates for a second hand market. Shocked vendors have reacted angrily to the news that Disclic, through discount...
[November 10, 2005, 15:00]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Others. Software isn't usually sold. Usually it's licensed under certain (changing) terms and conditions you may or may not agree with. And usually they come with fine print you might want to research to the fullest to really know what your rights...
[November 13, 2005, 20:49]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Microsoft will rather see customers buying second-hand Microsoft licenses then none at all. Because customers buying second-hand licenses are less likely to do something else then making use of those second-hand Microsoft licenses.
[November 13, 2005, 20:42]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback How is the software different from the hardware? It takes some time and money to make one or the other, how much would it cost 1000 units of each ready for sale? I think the difference is very obvious.
[November 13, 2005, 15:27]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback What is the difference between paid for software licences and personal computers? In financial terms, they are both capital expenditure that can be re couped when a company goes into liquidation. Microsoft would be wrong to block it, just as it...
[November 13, 2005, 9:36]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Obviously larger companies who's bread butter comes from selling Microsoft licences would be worried, but what's really wrong here? If no one is using the license and you no longer want it then it should be no issue to resell it on to a third party.
[November 12, 2005, 18:05]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Er, competitors? The people who are selling MICROSOFT licenses? Nope, sorry, that doesn't make sense at all. I've been a Linux user since 1993 and I'm more than happy to bash Microsoft for some of their more dubious practises.
[November 11, 2005, 10:07]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Why are resellers shocked? This isn't unusual Microsoft business behaviour at all. Meaning: trying to crush competitors at whatever (whomever) cost.
[November 10, 2005, 21:25]
Second-hand PC Shipments Tipped To Boom
News Demand for second-hand PCs is soaring in parts of the developing world, analyst group Gartner reported on Wednesday. The demand for [second-hand] PCs continues to exceed supply, providing opportunistic but potentially lucrative opportunities for...
[September 28, 2005, 15:00]
Microsoft Licensing Prices Tipped To Fall
News Second-hand licences will not suit all businesses though, warned David Mitchell, software practice leader at analyst group Ovum. As reported last week, a UK firm called Discount Licensing is buying software licences from companies that have gone...
[November 14, 2005, 16:10]
Microsoft Fails To Quash Second-hand Software Market
News Speaking to ZDNet.co.uk this week, Discount-Licensing (which used to trade under the name Disclic) discussed how it has continued to trade despite Microsoft's decision in October 2007 to introduce a clause into its software licences to make the re...
[March 6, 2008, 14:09]
SCO's 'Las Vegas Code': All Show?
News The problem, he says, lies on the one hand in SCO's demands that Linux users buy licences and on the other hand that it has brought trade secret claims against IBM. Thus, says Moglen, SCO's second example was of code that in the public domain to...
[November 27, 2003, 12:40]
I Have A Query On This One.
Talkback ".introduce a clause into its software licences to make the re-selling of licences expressly forbidden. And why are we putting up with being given 'Terms' to comply with that stop us re-selling our goods second-hand, and at the same time say that...
[March 6, 2008, 15:26]
UK Charity Builds Linux Network On A Shoestring
News The PCs on the network run Red Hat Linux 9, OpenOffice, Evolution for email and Mozilla for browsing, saving Alone in London further costs on licences for desktop applications. Hertzberg bought a 1.5GHz server second hand for £300, £1,700 less than...
[September 16, 2004, 15:10]
Microsoft Offers Tools For Vista, Office And Web
News This test version is expected to be generally available around the end of this year, when it will be offered as a free download under one of Microsoft's Shared Source licences, Goldfarb said. Microsoft will hand out three developer toolsets on...
[November 7, 2006, 12:55]
Java Steps Closer To Open Source
News It will modify its licences to make access to the Java source code easier, the Santa Clara, California-based company said on Wednesday. Over the next month, Sun intends to introduce two licences covering the use of J2SE.
[March 17, 2005, 8:40]
Microsoft Launches 'charity Friendly' Software Licence
News Three years ago, Microsoft caved in to pressure after it demanded that an Australian children's charity buy new licences for donated computers. Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities...
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
Microsoft Delays Whidbey And Yukon
News On the other hand, the software titan is likely to face complaints from customers, particularly those who purchased licences that included upgrades to new products over a set period of time, said Rob Helm, an analyst at research firm Directions on...
[March 11, 2004, 7:30]
Microsoft Changes Course On Licensing
News The licensing modifications could radically change how businesses obtain client-access licences (CALs) for future Microsoft products. Park also warned not infer any broad loosening of how Microsoft views the licences.
[December 3, 2002, 8:08]
