[Wolves] BBC Technology poll - vote now :-)

[Mark Harrison]

Richard,

We appear to be talking at cross purposes.


There was an attack on MS that claimed that licencing schemes NOT 
related directly to usage were "morally reprehensible", and I was 
disagreeing. I wasn't trying to argue that MS was the right solution for 
schools!

I deliberately picked a whole bunch of examples, in "life outside 
software" where we all agree that paying based on something OTHER than 
usage-related-packages is perfectly acceptable.

You may want to move the argument away from those grounds onto the 
"convicted monopolist" argument... and you are welcome to do so... but I 
don't see how that invalidates any of my examples that we are willing to 
accept non-usage related contracts in MOST things we do in life.


Mark