Software Licensing affects all types of business and organisations of all sizes. For too long some software vendors have used licenses to limit choice and lock-in customers. But now, a growing collection of users, independent developers and cloud-centric businesses is challenging them to change and to help create a fairer marketplace. Get involved and join businesses around the world arguing for fair software licencing.
Some licences prohibit running software on hardware not 100% dedicated to the customer –eliminating the value of the ‘virtualised’ cloud.
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Inflexible
Some software companies have inflexible and non-transparent contracts and subject customers to hostile audits as they move to the cloud.
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Costs
Costs go up 150% just to run previously purchased licenses on clouds from other providers.
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Directory software
By controlling directory software legacy players’ lock businesses into their ecosystems and restrict choice.
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Can and cannot do
It should be clear and easy to understand what you can and can’t do with the software you’ve paid for!
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Overly complex
Businesses are stung with unexpected and unfair charges from overly complex, difficult to understand licences.
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Migrating
Migrating from on-premise to cloud-based software-as-a-service makes financial sense. But some software companies make it prohibitively expensive to run their software on competing clouds.
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Barriers
Technical and financial barriers narrow the cloud choices available to business users to those offered by legacy software companies.
