MS licensing. >An explanation of Microsoft's licensing model (from a person that actually likes their software... but not their licensing). Read it and weep. Specially interesting is the situation they got in which they had to pay a license for the new Office (XP) simply to be able to run Office 2000.... which they had already purchased!!
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>Truly insane. Another one of the advantages of a monopoly: you can force people to pay for a product they don't use, but rather to continue using the one they have already purchased from you.
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Not much can be said about this. Only that people who buy from the devil will suffer what the deserve 
- okok, we do have some Microsoft stuff, too. And usually we do weep when we read the licenses ...
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