Re:Emacs is special regarding UIs
by chipotle_coyote on Friday September 11, 2020 @07:56PM
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> I haven't used Apple's App Store; is it really true that, say, Ford Motor Company can buy one $9.99 (or $99.99) copy of some useful application and use it on all of the corporate Macs?
No. :) I tried to be clear that I was thinking about individual licenses rather than site licenses, but might not have been, and you're absolutely right about corporate site licenses. Apple's App Store is designed for handling individual licenses -- they're tied to Apple accounts, not machines. (With the asterisk that this isn't necessarily true for iOS devices which can be managed by your company, and there's a whole different way of managing those, but companies I've worked for haven't used those.)
I'm not sure I knew Microsoft was still requiring license keys like that for Windows, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
No. :) I tried to be clear that I was thinking about individual licenses rather than site licenses, but might not have been, and you're absolutely right about corporate site licenses. Apple's App Store is designed for handling individual licenses -- they're tied to Apple accounts, not machines. (With the asterisk that this isn't necessarily true for iOS devices which can be managed by your company, and there's a whole different way of managing those, but companies I've worked for haven't used those.)
I'm not sure I knew Microsoft was still requiring license keys like that for Windows, but I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.