from the we'd-never-try-to-crush-the-little-guy dept.
Microsoft finalises cloud licensing changes in response to EU complaints:
Microsoft finalises cloud licensing changes in response to EU complaints
Microsoft said these changes will make it easier for smaller cloud competitors to 'thrive'. It follows licensing complaints made against the company in 2019.
Microsoft is making changes to its software licensing terms to help other cloud service providers to compete.
The tech giant said the new changes will make it easier for customers to run Microsoft software on the cloud platforms of smaller rivals in the EU. These changes are set to take effect on 1 October.
"At Microsoft we recognise the importance of a competitive environment in the European cloud provider market, in which smaller competitors can thrive," the company said in a blogpost. "It is therefore critical for us to remain mindful of our responsibilities as a major technology company."
The changes come following complaints made against the company in 2019. A number of Microsoft's EU customers said its licensing terms made it more expensive to run Microsoft software such as Office on the cloud platforms of competitors such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Alibaba.
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Wednesday August 31 2022, @07:13PM (2 children)
Yeah, right.
Something I wrote and then posted on a greenish site about twenty years or more ago.
Our father, who art in Redmond
Microsoft be thy name
Thy monopoly come
Thy will be done
Throughout the Earth as it is in the US
Give us this day,
our daily license activation key
And forgive us our bug reports
As we forgive our system crashes
And lead us not into competition
But deliver us from innovation
For thine is the control, and the power, and the greed
Forever,
Amen.
Amusing anecdote
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2022, @12:48AM (1 child)
Off topic, but I've experienced the same sort of thing with my photos. When you have something unique and creative, people don't seem to believe it when they encounter the creator. Unless it's some art on a site for artists, they seem to think everyone "stole" it. It's almost as if they think creative things only come from some ethereal otherworldly being that couldn't possibly be slumming it and talking to ordinary people. It's a strange attitude to have these days when anyone can put their work online without a lot of effort.
(Score: 3, Informative) by DannyB on Thursday September 01 2022, @02:48PM
I have encountered that same phenomena with some very caustic but funny anti-SCO poetry I wrote back in the day on Y!SCOXQ.PK.
Some of my college best friends were visiting, and were reading it. Laughing. One of them could not believe I had written that. I showed him convincing evidence. The fact that I could post to the account. That I had more of this including variations and earlier drafts.
I finally asked him: SOMEONE had to write this. Why is it so difficult to believe that I wrote it?
If you eat an entire cake without cutting it, you technically only had one piece.