>How are software subscriptions different than a service
level agreement to keep open source software up to date and
free of known bugs?
Because they neither include an expectation that the software was
intended to be correct, nor the right to continue to use it once it
has been purchased, forever.
>in two countries, but not in the United
States, when that software is released May 31, an executive
said.
Because the Ozzies never said "no taxation without
representation", nor chucked a boatload of software into a harbor
to make a point in a trade dispute. Simpler? I think, based on the
antipodeans I have known, that is an unjustifed assumption or
assertion by MS.
I think it is important that our upside-down friends think carefully
before adopting Star Office and Abiword.
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Adrian Midgley
Exeter
http://www.swis.net/midgley/
