[Info-vax] Mostly off-topic: licensing methods

[Scott Dorsey]

On Friday, January 27, 2023 at 4:52:41 PM UTC-8, Arne Vajh=C3=B8j wrote:
> But Oracle just invented something new: license per employee.=20

It makes reasonable sense.  Oracle isn't necessarily trying to bill 
customers in a way proportional to how much of Oracle's product they
use.  They aren't trying to bill customers in a way proportional to 
how many instances of Oracle's products they use.  They want to bill
customers in proportion to how much those customers can afford to pay.

Think of this as an optimization problem where their goal as vendor is
to optimize the total amount of money customers pay them.  They don't want
to get smaller customers to drop their products, but they want larger 
customers to pay to their utmost ability to do so.
--scott

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