[Am-info] Microsoft moves to comply with DOJ settlement deal

[Roy Bixler]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 03:54:00PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> Read the Microsoft doc very carefully.   It says, and I cut and paste: 
> "Licenses will be available for as little as $5 per server."
> 
> I'll bet you won't find ONE that is 'as little as $5.'

The point really isn't how much they charge for one of those licences,
but that they charge anything at all for those licences.  It's inherently
slanted towards proprietary software vendors and neatly locks out free
software (or software libre) projects which generally don't or can't bill
"customers" per server.  That's of course apart from the point of Microsoft
making revenue out of what's allegedly a punishment for their abusive
monopolistic practices.

R.