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[–] hark@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Per user licensing is nothing compared to the ridiculousness of per cpu licensing.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Per core licensing walks into the room.

I don't miss doing Microsoft license audits.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Oracle has entered the chat

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago

Enterprise Linux distros, enterprise (Oracle-owned) database management systems, etc.

[–] menny@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, at work we use a bunch of Finite element modelling software and all of them have that type of licence.

What the actual fuck?

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IBM's IBMi products make you pay yearly to activate the cores.