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Corporations Suffer Microsoft Activation Bug
Uncle Bob writes "Trustworthy Computing, eat your heart out! As of the 2003-04-14 update, people are reporting that Office 2000 SR1a is now asking to be "registered" again. And again, and again. Very little information has been posted on the traditional news sites (the only link I could find was The Register. Note - The Register's story is not quite accurate, but the registration bug is real. Our company with approx 80,000 PCs has been hit...."
Shutup.
I'm looking forward to a day when BSA (and other above-law organisations) will enforce all win users to buy ms licences for everything they use. That'd be a happy day for Linux.
Nah, the wierdo Linux zelots will be complaining, "We don't use MS Windows, Word, or Powerpoint, we shouldn't have to pay the $1500 pc software pirating tax."
Now that is funny. I had any moderation points I would use them on you.
.....Sums it up in a nutshell....
"Open Source: Sure it has bugs, but at least you do not have to pay for the privledge of trying to fix them".
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
Ka-ching!
I'm replying to this comment up here instead of the dozen or so I see lower down because people will probably see this one first. =)
.pst files. When you add up the lost productivity and support and training costs, it would easily be in the tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars.
There IS a cost to OpenOffice, and it's a steep one. In my company, they are thousands and thousands of PC's and Laptops, and tens of thousands of employees marrily plunking away with MS Office. They know the application. They are comfortable with it. They are lots of people around them that can answer questions about it, and they are literally millions of docoments created with it that *work*.
Now, if you try to deploy OpenOffice, chaos on an immense scale would result - Documents would be screwy, people would be lost and confused, and productivity would drop like a rock. Morale would drop since people couldn't do their jobs, and god help us if people couldn't access the terabytes of mail stored in Outlook
Free software is free for folks like you and me, but in the hands of the barely-computer literate, the costs can be enormous.
Microsoft software is still better than free software (e.g. Linux), which breaks every 2 months.
I think the meaning is quite obvious, and only an anal-retentive moron would nit pick it like that.
Since you're using OpenOffice at your company, you might be interested to know that you could be in violation of the gpc (general polygon clipping library) license. gpc, which is often mistaken for a GNU item since it starts with a 'g', is required to build OpenOffice. However (and I've never seen this mentioned or reported anywhere), it comes with a very restrictive 'non-commercial-use' license. Presumably anything linked with it (like OpenOffice) should also be considered for 'non-commercial-use' only as well, right?
You are so full of poo for trying to start a troll.
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