Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Goldman says 'sell' Microsoft Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:36:33 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <8evn3a-mse.ln1@sky.matrix> NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: tin/1.9.5-20091224 ("Lochruan") (UNIX) (Linux/3.0.0-32-generic (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:173219 Homer wrote: > Verily I say unto thee that Bjørn Steensrud spake thusly: > > Homer wrote: > >> Verily I say unto thee that President 7 spake thusly: > >>> > >>> Just recently I heard NAS device makers with microshaft crap can't > >>> release their NAS without dishing out money for the number windopws > >>> (l)users logging in and downloading from that box. I mean WTF? > >> > >> That would be Client Access Licenses, although I'm surprised they > >> apply to commodity hardware like NASs. > > > > The software isn't a commodity, I guess. > I just don't get the justification for CALs at all. Nobody has to justify anything to you. > The OS costs the vendor the same amount of money to produce regardless > of whether its accessed by 10 clients or 10 million, and it also costs > technical support the same amount of money to diagnose and fix issues > with the server being accessed, as there's only one server no matter how > many clients it has, so how can the OS vendor possibly justify charging > a per-client access fee? Nobody has to justify anything to you. > The only correlation between the number of clients and cost is the > amount of hardware required to physically sustain the load. That has > nothing to do with the OS vendor whatsoever. That same retarded reasoning could be used for any software for which even just a single copy was ever sold. The original customer could just image it and put it up for free download to everyone in the world. Stop whining about what licensing terms others use for *their* products. If you don't want to use it, don't use it.