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Multi-Core Chips And Software Licensing
i_r_sensitive writes "NetworkWorldFusion has an article on the interaction between multi-core processors and software licensed and charged on a per-processor basis. Interesting to see how/if Oracle and others using this pricing model react. Can multi-core processors put the final nail in per-processor licensing?"
Some mods seem to have little or no grasp of reality, or ability to read.
What Trogre is saying is that because Open Source and Free Software doesn't impose per-processor restrictions, and because for many people these software products do the job, why is licensing multicore processors a problem?
Another thing that could be read into it is that if costs become too high because of multicore licences, more people will move to Open Source.
If the mod has a point he wishes to raise, or disagree with, then either forego mod rights in this article, or post as an AC. Badly targetted or biases mods are also offtopic.
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