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Exactly how many licenses do I have? | |
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| Time: 02:15 EST/07:15 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: John Quigley | ||
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have access to an MSDN license that gives me testing rights to an operating system. I have access to an Action pack license that gives me rights to run the IT side of my business. My firm has a Open Business/Value (whatever the 3 year software assurance is called) because at the time I signed up for it, there was not the MPAN program and since the majority of the firm's income is from consulting other than IT, I didn't feel that it was kosher to be running the firm on my "action pack" license. | ||
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| #1 By 8556 (12.207.222.149) at 2/4/2006 8:40:32 PM |
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MS is so huge that offering an Action Pack subscription to an MD is not surprising. If he is the IT guy for his company the sale is legit. Is not, than MS needs to police their system better. More than likely they were happy to get the couple of hundred bucks per year from the doctor. MS's revenue is ever increasing. They can sell to who they want and under whatever conditions they dictate. That's capitalism.
Reselling NFR software goes against the idea of NFR software. There will always be someone who wants to pull in a few extra bucks the easy way. To those people: some day soon MS will record the product keys of the NFR software and who it went to. If it is used in a manner not consitent with the license the reseller risks losing his MS contacts and reputation. For now, there are bigger fish to fry. I learned that in the Quad Cities are there is a rent to own type store that reuses Dell product key, scratches off the original key on the case, resells the scratched key and, on top of that, resells the Dells for double what they go for on the Dell website. I am amazed at what people do to make money. MS: Please catch up to the bigger crooks and nail them, then work your way down to the smaller marginal crooks, so that those of us that follow the rules are not pissed off at you when we see the illegal crap that is going on without penalty. |
| #2 By 9589 (71.49.184.222) at 2/4/2006 11:20:57 PM |
| Microsoft and all software vendors, for that matter, have their work cut out for them. For example, IP is laughed in the Orient. The last time I was in Korea, software piracy was flourishing in every city large or small. You could walk into a software "store" like walking into a 7-11 and purchase software for 1/100 to 1/1000 of its retail cost. This illegal commerce was done completely in the open. |
| #3 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 2/6/2006 2:59:19 PM |
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I let the Action Pack thing go...
I went to renew, and MS had cancelled my hotmail account, which was tied to the passport account that was tied to our corporate account that was tied to our AP subscription. When we first signed up it took nearly two MONTHS to get all that straightened out. Not again. It's not worth it. I want nothing more to do with Passport. |
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