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Re: [News] Proprietary Software -- Licensing and Service Failures

  • Subject: Re: [News] Proprietary Software -- Licensing and Service Failures
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 15:04:47 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:

> Subterranean proprietary software blues, Part 1
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In sum, I can't think of any way that a proprietary license is good for 
> | customers. Not one. Frankly, I don't think it's much better for vendors in 
> | focusing them on helping their customers. But that's another blog entry.  
> `----
> 
> http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9754369-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad

I liked this one: "proprietary licenses, the crack cocaine of software
finance."

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac man affected us as
| kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills
| and listening to repetitive music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo
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