Comment retroactive? (Score 1) 30
Doesn't the constitution prohibit the making of ex-post-facto laws?
Its license runs for a year, after which you will get a fresh copy. This means you won't be able to configure your own system and keep it alive -- you'll have to recreate it, from scratch, annually.
Annual license that is a complete pain-in-the-A$$
In other words How To Make Something Seriously Restricted Without Actually Saying So
Yeah, it sounds like they're intentionally driving away anyone but paying customers at this point.
Remember Munich, with much fanfare, adopted Linux in 2003 only to abandon it for Windows 10:
The plan was prompted by gripes about both the complexity of the current setup and compatibility headaches. According to Mayor Dieter Reiter, having two operating systems on municipal PCs is "completely uneconomic" -- it'd make more financial sense to simplify. And unfortunately for Linux advocates, Windows was more likely to win out in this case. Munich's council has had to keep a minority of Windows PCs around for apps and hardware that absolutely needed Microsoft's platform to run, and those were destined to stay.
Reiter also pointed to complaints about IT performance, although there are disputes as to whether or not reverting to Windows is the solution.
In addition to politics and cost, the issue of having to work in a Microsoft-centric world are likely to kill this.
At least with Prince I can't type the symbol so I kinda have to say the artist formerly known as. - That was kind of Prince's point. To make it so that references to him "technically" didn't violate the bizarre name-rights clauses in his Warner Bros contract.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
