Microsoft’s Licensing Model (Sigh)
http://www.internetsoup.com/licensing.htm
One of my biggest, most important responsibilities in my day job is ensuring that we have purchased all of the software licenses that we require. It’s my job to ensure that we are 100% legal at all times - which fulfills one of our corporate goals to be a completely ethical company.
Most companies make it very simply for me and my staff. If I want to license Norton Antivirus, all I need to do is count the number of machines on which the product is to be installed, write up a purchase order and call the salesperson to order the product. It works the same with Conversion Plus, Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, WinZIP and any of the other hundreds of products that we require to keep our company in business. Read the rest of this entry »

