Your loss, their gain, Apr 10, 2003

Webmaster's note: Doesn't mention Linux, but those reading it may find Linux much more attractive

... the consequences of this logic will no doubt come as a big surprise to most of Microsoft's volume-license customers. For example, if a company that signed up for SA before last summer's July 31 deadline wants to sell a division now, in theory it must pay for the second and third year of its agreement on those licenses it wishes to transfer. That will make the transferred licenses perpetual in Microsoft's eyes, but the SA coverage itself will then disappear -- with neither the divesting nor the receiving company receiving future upgrades for those licenses. Microsoft will have received at least an additional 50 percent of the original license costs without providing a thing.

A group of open-source advocates and critics will meet behind closed doors Wednesday afternoon, in the first of at least two meetings in search of a compromise on what could be the first bill in the United States to encourage the use of open-source software by a state government.

Richard Li, director of enterprise applications at Red Hat, said: "We're taking our successful open source model that has worked with our Red Hat Enterprise Linux family of solutions and applying this to enterprise applications."

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