![]() However, in software licensing, it sometimes makes sense to purchase a “site license” rather than a bunch of individual licenses. This way is simpler to manage and offers the possibility of volume discounts as well as potentially more favorable terms of use. ![]() Just like Panera Bread doesn’t buy all their printer paper by walking into a Staples, but rather through large sourcing agreements that are negotiated between Panera’s corporate office and Staples’ business development division, so too do large companies buy software in bulk wherever possible. In brief, these jobs exist because of a key difference between end user and big corporate licensing agreements. These people ( It Happened To Me: I used to be a software asset manager) don’t really… do anything for society, but sort of….read a bunch of contracts and argue about who owes who money. This has led to the creation of two whole new categories of bullshit jobs: auditors and Software Asset Managers. Desktop software EULAs typically use a lot of legalese to essentially say “you can use this on, like, a few devices, but you’ll be in big trouble if you bootleg this or do terrorism in the user forums.” As a regular Joe user of Twitter and player of Angry Birds, you probably have little to fear from these EULAs and should focus more on the privacy agreements and how big tech companies can use your data.įor businesses, things become a lot trickier not only due to the volume of Windows ‘95 installations (no joke, a lot of companies still have these floating around) but the complexity of enterprise software agreements and the hell that is datacenter licensing. All those annoying End User License Agreements, or EULAs, that pop up when you install or update software-or sometimes when you start up iTunes and Apple has decided to modify their terms-are what dictate and communicate those precise ways in which you are allowed to use the software product you purchased. Even after you paid the cashier at Circuit City, you did not own the operating system itself, and in fact you entered into a legally binding agreement indicating the very precise ways in which you would be allowed to use the software before you could actually use your computer. ![]() However, when you bought Windows ‘95, even before The Cloud was a gleam in Marc Benioff’s eye, you simply paid Microsoft for the right to license the software. It’s your car, you own the property wholly, and you can make a planter out of it if you want! While the police arrest you for starting a wildfire with your elaborate gender reveal car arson scheme, the car company is not chasing you down to deliver an audit with a bill of $50,000 for misuse of the vehicle per your User Agreement. You can use it for how it’s ostensibly intended (driving and convincing hotties to bang in the backseat) or, you can immediately set fire to it. When you buy a car, you drive off the lot and you own that car.
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