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That's a little over-cynical, IMHO. They don't have licensing in the products because it's an overhead, it complicates development, and their enterprise customers are supposed to be trustworthy and in communication with IBM about ongoing requirements. But yes, they have auditors to enforce this stuff.
Not exactly. Keep in mind the people using the products in a large enterprise are not, generally, the people who have to pay for it. If you break these two people into their respective, high level, org groups it will generally be: procurement and engineering. IMO it's not that the engineering group is trying to not be trustworthy. It's that they have a job to do and IBM knows that this is their goal. So if we let eng…
Re: IBM Stops Buybacks to Pay for Red Hat
#191On the enterprise software I worked on, when you wanted to roll out more you tended to involve IBM to help you plan it anyway, so this whole argument is moot for much of what they do.