[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
licenses. [was: Re: M$ IL latest craze]
leaving aside questions of intelectual property, morals Vs law etc.
let me point a future direction, which looks like the most probable to me:
1) unique CPU IDs will become the norm.
2) software companies, M$ included, will have license managers
inside their software, which will make it impractical to activate
it outside the liscence boundaries (to "pirate" it.)
I think this is the most probable scheme because:
1) I think this is the scheme intel and M$ (corporate partners) are ploting
together
with P-III, and they do control the market. (sigh)
2) It is in the interest of other (commercial) software developpers, and
they'll
make it the norm.
The implications are:
This will return the software buisness to the normal market scheme:
If you want IT (say, windows) badly enough - you'll pay for it, otherwise
you'll look
for alternatives (say, linux...) for another price.
This is actually GOOD for linux, I think, because it will enable both non-free
and free software on the PC in general, and on linux in particular.
Actually it may even be profitable to M$ to lower the prices then ...
my 2 agorot ...