{"id":672,"date":"2009-10-05T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2009-10-05T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:05:00","slug":"software-licensing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/software-licensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Software licensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was an interesting  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/615901\/ballmer-dont-expect-simpler-licensing-soon\">article<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">By Nicole Kobie, 5 Oct 2009 at 12:28<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">Confused man with his head in his hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">Microsoft knows its licensing is a problem, but don\u2019t expect it to get any simpler anytime soon, chief executive Steve Ballmer has said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">At a Microsoft event today in London, the boisterous Ballmer was put on the spot when a question regarding the complexities of the software giant\u2019s licensing gained enthusiastic applause from the audience of customers and journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">While he acknowledged the problem, Ballmer said it wasn\u2019t likely to be solved anytime soon. \u201cI don\u2019t anticipate a big round of simplifying our licensing,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">Ballmer admitted that Microsoft&#8217;s licences had some \u201cgotchas\u201d in the fine print, and said that \u201cour people\u201d shouldn\u2019t necessarily be hassling companies over issues in that fine print. \u201cI\u2019m sure we have fine print we don\u2019t need. We\u2019re not saints,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Licensing is a complicated issue, but it seems that vendors make it harder than it needs to be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-7113547220000513974?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was an interesting article &#8211; By Nicole Kobie, 5 Oct 2009 at 12:28Confused man with his head in his hands Microsoft knows its licensing is a problem, but don\u2019t expect it to get any simpler anytime soon, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/05\/software-licensing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}