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[random-c.livejournal.com]

...no, I cannot 'just put 2000 on it', it is stickered for 98SE.
...no, I cannot 'just put XPembedded on it', it is stickered for Vista Business, and apart from which we're out of build PIDs, which I told several people including the CTO about a couple of months ago.
...no, I cannot 'reuse an old license' it doesn't work like that.
You muppets might not think that licensing is important, but if I let you get away with this and MS found out, it would probably put the company out of business.
So, unless someone's going to make Dev start porting to linux, someone needs to start spending. *sigh*

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

"But you've got a copy over there! Why can't you load it on my machine too?"

Got that yesterday.

Git.

tpajaz posts a "me too"

[tpajaz.livejournal.com]

We are having dreadful trouble with this. But for Project and Visio. The CEO says, use something free, the staff can't or won't and I'm left in the middle trying to provide licenses on VMWare installations so that we can get back under the number of licenses we have.

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[mouser.livejournal.com]

In fairness, I've been less then impressed by most of the equivalents. Even OpenOffice is only maybe 80%

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[tpajaz.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely - but if as a business you need something, you bloody well stump up the cash for it. Especially given the amount of money spend on licenses for engineering dev tools like Cadence every year.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

You can't reuse an old license? Even on a PC you're discarding? I thought you could move the product COA to another machine install it with the same license and reactivate; so long as it was only on one computer at a time?

[random-c.livejournal.com]

Not quite what they're asking - they wanted to know why I couldn't use the same PID for the new PC as I had on an old type we're not producing any MORE of.

[squigit.livejournal.com]

Not if you're using an OEM license.

[random-c.livejournal.com]

Plus XPe does it differently anyway, and there are separate licenses for the images themselves and individual units...

[kenbrody.livejournal.com]

BDTD.

Client brings in dead computer. We resurrect it, recovering nearly everything, but requiring re-installation of some apps, including MS-Office.

"Can you reinstall it for me?"
"Sure, just bring the installation disks over."
"Umm... I can't find the disks."
"Okay, get me the installation key, and I'll see if we have a corresponding MS-Office install set here."
"Umm... I don't have any key. I 'borrowed' the disks from a friend."
"Then I can't install it for you. Sorry."
"Can't you just use your key?"
"No."
"Pleeeeeeease????"

[mattcaron.livejournal.com]

Now, here is the irony...

In my experience, the guys who are made tremendously upset when they learn that someone is pirating our software (and thus, in their mind, depriving us of revenue) are the first to say "just load the &^#) software and don't worry about the license".

Funny that.

augh!

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

What are you still supporting that is stickered for 98SE? Put it out of its misery already.

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[random-c.livejournal.com]

It's a POS type thing and apparently it's new. I have no idea where it came from, said manager was unclear about how many we would be acquiring, who the supplier is and what OS I would be expected to put on it. He asked me to make the buttons look less naff, and I had to explain the difference between the skinnable endpoint software and the one-version POS software and the fact that there's nobody in Dev who ever worked on said POS-type-thing, it's been that long since the thing changed.
Thing is, last I heard we were doing away with them as the endpoints were being made compatible with the big customer's general POS system...
I realised that the only way to deal with him was to walk away around the point where he told me that it was 'exactly the same' as our old POS 'it's only the motherboard which has changed' and I couldn't make him understand that no, this is NOT the same as changing the touchscreen driver - which required a new disk ANYWAY because of COM port issues - so it was *extremely* unlikely that would be able to make it work with an existing Win2k disk.
Hopefully this week he'll either have some meaningful information about it or he'll be giving it to someone else to deal with and I'll be able to get the information from them.