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Re: [PLUG] Slashdot news and op-ed piece on software licensing
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Bill Jonas wrote:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/06/08/0647212
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> This might help if you're trying to convince your company to give Free
> Software a try, even a limited one.
No necessarily. This would only help if your company obtains its software
via OEM purchases. Most serious organizations will purchase their
software via a site license of some sort. The process involves obtaining
a copy of the software, so the OEM-crippled version is not really that
much of an issue. As a point of reference, when my company purchases
systems, they come with their hard drive formated and sys'ed with a
Windows 98 command.com. All OS and application installations are done
in-house.
Where this will hurt is in the personal and home business/SOHO purchases,
where your OS and applications come primarily from the OEM bundles.
Michael W. Ryan, MCP, MCT | OTAKON 2000
mryan@netaxs.com | Convention of Otaku Generation
http://www.netaxs.com/~mryan/ | http://www.otakon.com/
No, I don't hear voices in my head;
I'm the one that tells the voices in your head what to say.
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