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Comment discounting azure? (Score 1) 82

by _ZR2_ on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:29PM (#59613528) Attached to: Microsoft's Azure Cloud Service Is Becoming More Popular Than Amazon's AWS At Big Companies

Last place I worked was all AWS, but MS approached the CEO with substantial discounts on Azure. Suddenly the company was switching without much thought on the cost of moving everything. Those of us in IT weren't involved in the decision.

Not sure how often that is happening, but I suspect it is elsewhere as well.

Submission + - SQL-Ledger Relicensed, Community Gagged

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Ashley Gittins

on Saturday April 14, 2007 @10:07AM

Ashley Gittins writes: "Users of the popular accounting package SQL-Ledger are being kept in the dark about a recent license change. Two weeks ago a new version of the software was released but along with it came the silent change of license from GPLv2 to the "SQL-Ledger Open Source License" — presumably in an effort to prevent future forks like LedgerSMB. As it turns out, the author is making deliberate attempts to prevent the community from finding out about the license change. All posts to the SQL-Ledger mailing lists asking about the license change are being censored and direct questions to the author are going unanswered. This behaviour is not a first for this particular project, and is part of the reason for the original LedgerSMB fork. So, does a project maintainer have an ethical obligation to notify his or her community of a license change? What about a legal obligation?"

Comment internet access requires a computer? (Score 1) 1177

by _ZR2_ on Wednesday July 05, 2006 @01:55PM (#15661322) Attached to: Your Favorite Support Anecdote

I worked helpdesk for a few years while in college. The best call I ever took was a lady who bought a modem to get internet access through the university. Unable to figure out how to use it she called the helpdesk. One of the first questions of course was did you install it in your computer? The answer was "Oh I need a computer to use this?"

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