Compulsory Windows licensing... for your Mac?!?!?!?!?!

[Wayward Clam]

Check this out--Microsoft is now requiring institutions to purchase Windows licenses for any and all Macintosh computers they own!!!

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25179.html" target="_blank">Latest Microsoft Shenanigan</a>

[NooNoo]

Hmmm, soon it will be three things will be inevitable in life, death, taxes and your microsoft licence. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" />

[EvilCabbage]

That would be about the point where I tell M$ to suck on my wang.

Im really getting sick of all that crap, just another reason for us to go towards open source standards at work.


Dear End User,

Thanks for the money, Fsck you.

Love,
Microsoft

[firemonkey]

WOW I guess the have a monopoly in the computer field and in the medical field in the area of protology the FDA should be alerted

[Milenko]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by EvilCabbage:
<strong>

Dear End User,

Thanks for the money, Fsck you.

Love,
Microsoft
</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">LMF(scking)AO!!!!!!!

[Stryfe]

Go with Macs and open source and start teaching the masses how to use them.

Screw M$. And their fees.

[Wayward Clam]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Stryfe:
<strong>Go with Macs and open source and start teaching the masses how to use them.

Screw M$. And their fees.</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">You have to go ONE HUNDRED PERCENT with them.

Even a single MS box means all of those Macs and Linux boxes have to have their own Windows license, or you are breaking the law.

[+Daemon+]

well thats m$ for ya.

Only run m$ at work.

Home is another story

[Hippie_Tech]

I'll play Devil's Advocate for just a second. The schools (or businesses) in question don't actually HAVE to go with this license agreement. They can still buy the individual licenses for each machine they want to run Windows or Office on. If they want the extremely low price for the licenses they have to get them for all of the machines that "could" run MS software on them. In the case of the Mac, they can run Office for Mac.

Yuck. That left a bad taste in my mouth when I said (typed) it. I hate Microsoft's policies as much as the next guy/gal, but there isn't anything saying that the companies/schools HAVE to use this license. That might change in the future. Who knows? I, personally, have taken the advice of so many pro-Microsoft people that kept saying "If you don't like it, use something else."
I am. It's called Linux. I'm also going to start suggesting to some of the companies I do service work for to do the same. After all, businesses and schools have more to gain from open-source than the average user. Money in their pockets and lots of it.

[+Daemon+]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Hippie_Tech:
<strong>I'll play Devil's Advocate for just a second. The schools (or businesses) in question don't actually HAVE to go with this license agreement. They can still buy the individual licenses for each machine they want to run Windows or Office on. If they want the extremely low price for the licenses they have to get them for all of the machines that "could" run MS software on them. In the case of the Mac, they can run Office for Mac.

Yuck. That left a bad taste in my mouth when I said (typed) it. I hate Microsoft's policies as much as the next guy/gal, but there isn't anything saying that the companies/schools HAVE to use this license. That might change in the future. Who knows? I, personally, have taken the advice of so many pro-Microsoft people that kept saying "If you don't like it, use something else."
I am. It's called Linux. I'm also going to start suggesting to some of the companies I do service work for to do the same. After all, businesses and schools have more to gain from open-source than the average user. Money in their pockets and lots of it. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I could live with m$... Linux and bsd are for me. I Have one windows box for gamming, but if m$ keeps this crap up ill live without playing games..or help wine with there emulator..