[pp.int.general] 3-step usage rights / forced licensing model

[Brian McNeil]

On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:31 +0100, Christian Hufgard wrote:
> Pasi Palmulehto wrote:
> > Would companies afford that MS would deny any security updates from
> > them?
> 
> They'd installed the hacked updates.

I can see you have years of experience in corporate IT.

Paying for Microsoft licenses is an "insurance policy". If needed
Microsoft can be blamed when things go wrong.

You can't do that if you've got a hacker in the machine room figuring
out how to hack the updates into an unlicensed version where built-in
update mechanisms refuse to work.

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