[ Thanks to Carla
Schroder for this link. ]
“A recent post by Ed Bott highlights once again another aspect
of freedom that is granted to users of Free and Open Source
Software (FOSS). The freedom is to use the software on as many
machines as you wish, without restriction. In this case, Microsoft
has added yet another new ‘feature’–the product is only
transferable one time. That means you get to move it once–after
that, it’s time to purchase the software you already own, yet
again.“It’s almost comical to me just how many things related to
intellectual property Microsoft has tightened over the years–they
make it so you don’t even ‘own’ the product you ‘purchased’ in
enterprise situation–they want you to rent it instead…”