Software Licenses - Information for Auditors -- "One of the hardest tasks to manage in the computing department for any organization is licenses for software. Understanding that the software that you have installed is ONLY covered by a "license to use" is a hard concept to grasp. This article covers licenses issues for Windows based desktop and server based platforms."

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 19, 2002 06:55 AM

 

Software Licenses -- "The common EULA used today essentially states that the program on the CD that you just bought from Fry's can only be installed on one computer at a time and cannot be given to a friend to install. You can copy the software, but once again it can only be installed on a single computer at any time. There is no requirement for the source code to be available; actually, when software uses the standard EULA it usually means that that source code will not be available."

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 19, 2002 06:56 AM

 

Hey folks, new concept...

Deep Posting

What do you think of me posting related news inside the other postings that I have made. As you can see above these two "deep postings" occur inside my original posting.

Pros: (1) You get more information on the topic. (2) It saves you from searching on the topic, for example, doing a search on Google. (3) It gives you more of an idea about what I think is interesting about the topic.

Cons: (1) It has less visibility. (2) You must click on the link on the home page to get here. (3) Not all regular postings will warrant Deep Postings. (4) Deep Postings will probably not ever show up in the WebWord Addiction newsletter.

Any other pros and cons? Thoughts on Deep Posting?

Posted by: John S. Rhodes on June 19, 2002 07:01 AM

 

I see "deep posts" being useful, but usually when I click on the comments link I expect to view useful comments from other visitors about the original post, not to see what additional "deep posts" you provided. I definitely see a place for them, but it would be nice to have a separate deep post area within the orginal post, but outside of the comments area. Maybe a Moveable Type feature request is in order?

Posted by: Joshua Kaufman on June 19, 2002 10:40 PM