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Date: 2004-12-21 01:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miramon.livejournal.com
That was very interesting. I think he's completely wrong about site licences though. He has a very shrinkwrapped software view of the world.

Date: 2004-12-21 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-pawson.livejournal.com
He only considers the unlimited use site licence. In my experience site licences tend to have a sliding scale of price brackets depending on the number of users: 50-100, 100-200, etc.

Thanks!

Date: 2004-12-21 04:46 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] the-magician.livejournal.com
yes, I agree that he is over simplifying things to make a point, but at the same time that he's waving his hands and saying it can't be understood, he's still deriving answers from dodgy assumptions.

As [livejournal.com profile] miramon and [livejournal.com profile] a_pawson have said, site licenses are very variable. There may be 3,000 employees at company A and they may pay a site licence that's only the equivalent of 500 retail copies, but then maybe only 200 users at Company A would actually use the product or would have been willing to share a copy, so that's actually 300 *extra* sales rather than 2,500 less.

And I've worked in several companies where we'd buy a site licence for, say, Word Perfect Office, and then a year later we switched over to Microsoft Outlook+Office, and we just deleted the WordPerfect stuff. If we had individual retail licences we'd have probably tried to sell them on, thereby diluting the retail market for WordPerfect.

Re: Thanks!

Date: 2004-12-21 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] derumi.livejournal.com
I'd run my business like a sports team - fire everyone (waive them), buy the site license for cheap, and then rehire them all. >_>

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