Re: [PLUG] Reg: You thought you bought software – all you bought was a lie

[Steve Litt via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Wed, 2022-10-05 at 14:27 -0400, Rich Freeman via plug wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 8:35 PM JP Vossen via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/04/you_cannot_buy_software/
> > 
> > 

[snip]

> > I bet $WORK has paid for proprietary software licenses for programs to track and
> > manage...wait for it...proprietary software licenses!  Circular insanity.
> 
> No argument there.  I'm ripping my hair out at work trying to figure
> out who is supposed to pay some invoices for a software subscription,
> with the threat looming that at some point access to the software
> could be revoked.  That would definitely be a case of "licensing,"
> despite costing millions of dollars...  :)

If they shut off your subscription, would that preclude your accessing your data?
Can you imagine how horrible THAT would be?

SteveT
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