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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally posted by evercl
I don't pay for software just because I can't afford it. Do I lose any sleep over it?? No, but I can see your points. I really wish I could pay for it, but M$ isn't going to file chapter 11 because I didn't buy office. I'm not saying the end's justifies the means, but I'm not putting anyone on the street.
And M$ does screw people over, corporations. You want SQL, you get it and it's running slow. So you add another processor and BANG your in violation of the software agreement because you have to license each processor. Then with W2K, sure you can keep licensing it with MS's old licensing but in order to be legal you'll have to buy site licenses for other things, but wait just a sec if you do the *new* big corp licensing you can save money and not have to buy any other site licenses for everything. They screw people as much as we screw them. Then small businesses have already invested a ton of money in M$, and now thye have to shell out more money than they planned because they all have some kind of proprietary software that works with the newest MS version. Because no one codes for windows 98.
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I guess you didn't know that IBM did the same thing when they were the dominant player.
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