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Higher cost software on more capable machines[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 11:50:06 AM PDT

The program still runs only one copy, and has the same number of users as it would in a single-core machine, it just runs faster. So why should we pay more for the same software on different computers?

This practice has been going on for years with software such as MVS, CICS, & Oracle written (mostly) for enterprise class servers. The more processing power there is, the more you pay - even though only one copy of the software may be running on any given box. And, if you change your box during the license period, you better believe you can't just transfer the license over - you have to start all over again, although maybe with some proration from the old license.

Nevertheless, I do not think the discussed offense by MS and eMachines is equivalent - for small server and desktop machines this practice is ludicrous.


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Higher Cost[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#10)
by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 12:10:25 PM PDT

You're right - this doesn't apply to the Microsoft and eMachines case. I was going off on a bit of a tangent there, sorry about that. It's only similar as far as "vendors manipulating the terms of sale."

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Not precisely[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#18)
by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 02:16:47 PM PDT

Mainframe software is indeed frequently licensed by machine capacity, but that's based on the assumption that a larger machine can and will service more users. And if you do change the machine, you sure can transfer the license -- any mainframe vendor who didn't allow that would be out of business pretty quickly (even CA). Now, if you *upgrade* the machine, you sure may have to pay for the difference between the old license "size" and the new one, but that's a different matter.

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