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M1cro$0ft D3sktop licenceing drives customers away!

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Kintaro:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?tid=2&nid=1567&enotify=1

Calum:

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It has been almost a year since Microsoft first introduced its Licensing 6.0 plan, which includes the controversial program called Software Assurance. That option would require users to make a contractual commitment to buying volume upgrades for its best-selling operating systems and desktop application suites ahead of time and paying an annual fee, instead of upgrading when they wanted or needed to.

"I don't like the restrictive nature of the [Software Assurance] plan, but it wouldn't make me throw out some huge investments I have in their servers either. However, let's just say I might be more open to considering some other [server] alternatives if they came along. The plan is just one more thing in the negative column on that decision," said Barry Hewitt, a LAN administrator with a large regional medical equipment distributor in Chicago.

Users who do not sign up for Software Assurance could see their upgrade costs rise anywhere from 30 to slightly more than 100 percent, according to research conducted last year by Gartner, a consultancy based in Stamford, Conn.
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for those of us who don't like link-only topic starters...

Kintaro:
Microsoft will learn the we need enough licences let alone there ssssssshhhhhhhhhitttttttte!

"Du Hast Nicht!"
Ramstien

[ June 18, 2002: Message edited by: BOB X11 ]

Refalm:

quote:BOB X11: "Du Hast Nicht!"
Ramstien
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It's actually

Calum:
you try telling your average people that. Take an umbrella and ear plugs, so you're prepared for the angry shouts, and spontaneous showers of rotten eggs and tomatoes that you will encounter.

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