- MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS SOFTWARE
- MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS CODE
- MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS LICENSE
While I'm sure they don't mind stopping individuals doing casual piracy, they realize that'll never happen on a large scale. The goal with MS's stuff has always been to find distributors who are committing fraud. Try and do that with Micorosoft Office code. At that point Even if the product's originator (Oracle, in this case) doesn't like your fix, you can always keep a (not so) private fork with your improvements.
MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS CODE
With freed software, you still don't have the rights of suing for broken code, but you do have the right to (pay someone to) look at the broken code and fix it.
MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS LICENSE
and, on top of that, you have to deal with things like license audits that will cost you random amounts of money on top of their 'insurance' fees. Going with Microsoft, you're not allowed to look at the broken code, much less fix it nor are you allowed to sue them for the costs of broken code - even if you can prove negligence.
MICROSOFT OFFICE PIRATE STATISTICS SOFTWARE
You have no better protection against broken code with Microsoft than you do with freed software - Actually Microsoft is worse. Has he ever read MS's EULA? If it breaks, you can blame Microsoft (just like you can blame Oracle if Open Office breaks), but you can't ask for any reparations. When something doesn't work between MS Office versions he can blame Microsoft. I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago.But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. Time to look for a new place to work? Yeah it's going through our (the IT Department's) minds quite a bit. My coworkers say that what'll probably happen is that the guy will come in, survey, ask for a dollar amount, the company will write a cheque, and IT won't get Christmas bonuses this year. I -WISH- my company was a large account that threatened to go somewhere else if Microsoft kept nagging us.
I would take the flak and argue the savings - I've personally had enough trouble just getting MS Office to work properly I couldn't see any of the other products possibly being any worse (Especially since OpenOffice can now be deflected to Oracle, Huzzah!). He doesn't want to be the guy who made everyone switch off Microsoft and then be expected to fully support it more than MS Office. But he pushes back that what they are paying for is insurance. Almost no retraining really required, the layout is largely the same. I have told my boss numerous times that we could have switched to OpenOffice or LibreOffice long ago. On top of that - we actually have about 150 thousand dollars worth of Client Access Licenses in use on our exchange server that aren't paid for, JUST in our disabled accounts (whose email store we haven't removed since the CEO wants to be able to access them at a moments notice, and we just started the process of archiving them a couple months ago). We're not too concerned since we purchase these things OEM bundled all nice and tidy, but on the odd occaison where a re-install of Windows was necessary and the Office Product key lost, we had this neat version of Office 2003 that didn't need a key to install, imagine that.
They're going to be viewing our server licenses, office, all that kind of stuff. I just got back from a weeks vacation to learn that we have an upcoming Microsoft Audit here in January. You know, its funny how these Slashdot articles line up with work.
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