Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Oct 2009 17:50 UTC
Software licensing. As home users, it's already an incomprehensible mess of legalese that nobody cares one bit about. However - we home users have it easy. The situation for business users and people managing IT departments is even worse (proprietary software, mostly, of course). Microsoft is a major culprit in this regard, and while the company acknowledges that the situation is messy, they claim they can't really do anything about it.
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2005-07-06
Lots of ways. For example there might be a license that says product X costs $1000 pr server, unless the server is a backup fail over server for a production server, at which point it will only cost you $300. This adds a layer of complexity about exactly what constitutes a fail over server. They could simply remove the clause and say $1000 pr server no matter what, and then the price would go up for a lot of users.
A lot of the complex clauses in MS licencing is about letting you use certain cheaper licenses in certain limited cases. Removing those clauses will lead to a lot of people who are using the cheap licenses in limited ways will now have to pay full price