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I would not like to order my dystopian cyberpunk future from IBM's or Oracle's or Microsoft's mail order catalogues, please. IIUC, you needed to license each i
by exikyut 5y ago
I would not like to order my dystopian cyberpunk future from IBM's or Oracle's or Microsoft's mail order catalogues, please.
IIUC, you needed to license each individual core of IBM's POWER servers. And then license the exact set of software features you needed enabled.
I don't think I need to talk about Oracle licensing.
I only recently learned (aww, can't re-find the comment) that Microsoft volume licensing in enterprise charges a seat license for Macs not running Windows.
This feels like an even more depressed reinvention of that. Me not want.
- formerly_proven 5y agoEnterprise licensing is a tarpit of unimaginable fuckedness. The most ridiculous kind of licensing I've ever seen is an application (for data compression) where "how many bytes did it save" has to be accounted because it's one of the main ways the license fees are calculated. And of course the usual insanity with twenty different portals (one for every other president, and about as old) per vendor, disjoint logins, human-in-the-loop verification and so on.