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Sell Your Computers, Keep Paying MS For Licenses
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Licensing 6.0 requires a company to pay up on software maintenance when the computers that are covered under the license are sold off. Here's the kicker though: MS is no longer obligated to provide maintenance even though the contract is paid up! Read the Infoworld article."
Tell me Mr. Anderson: what good is a MICROSOFT LICENSING 6.0 if you are unable to KEEP USING IT AFTER YOU SELL YOUR COMPUTERS?
Now that innovation!
Mabye this is what they kept talking about during all of those trials.
what if my computer catches fire, and is reduced to carbon? do i still keep on paying to MS?
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
From the office of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf :
In post Saddam Iraq, Microsoft licenses you.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Please do continue your efforts to rip^H^H^H fleece^H^H^H^H^H^H provide "value-added" propositions to your customers through your wonderful License Agreement.
You are making my world domination^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H job so much easier.
Thank you so much in advance,
Yours respectfully,
Linus Torvalds
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
" what if my computer catches fire, and is reduced to carbon? do i still keep on paying to MS?"
Give us your URL. We'll find out.
Just you wait until, along with a new social security number, you're required to purchase a Windows 2014 license for your new child, along with lifetime maintenance.
All in the name of curbing copyright infringement, mind you.
Why didn't I think of that.
Me: "Hey boss, I don't like the new MS license system. Letstop using Ms products."
Boss: "Sure, what would that entail?"
Me: "Um, well, the accounting, mail, DNS, Database, HR and Engineering servers would have to be completely redone, half of our software would have to go as well. We would also need to replace about half of our support staff with more expensive staff."
Boss: "Why haven't I fired you yet?"
"The saddest words of mice and men, are not those which were, but should have been."
License agreements are becoming more and more abusive. I decided to jump several steps ahead (short steps) and write the final EULA:
The final license agreement:
- I can do anything I like.
- You have no power.
- You can't say anything bad about me.
- Everything belongs to me.
I knew a 3-year-old who said this. He has since become an adult, which is more than I can say for some executives.