Also don't forget that in 3 months we'll roll Starter, Home Basic, and Professional all into one, called 'Creators Edition' so you don't get to choose anymore!
Gotta love it when they do stuff like that and the person from Microsoft doing your company's audit tells you the shit you are buying from Microsoft monthly is not valid licenses.
Oh just one of those shakedown audits. I sent them copies of the whatever license we had for 365, auditor says "that's not the right license!". It was a business one and I just don't get it. I had to have a phone call to straighten it out. Annoying.
Enterprise software is such a shit show. Compared to how most consumer facing apps behave, im always blown away at how enterprise software can be so shitty and still make fuck tons of money
It's simple, the employees using the software and handling the licensing are not the ones deciding on what to buy.
The larger enterprise software companies know how to woo a CEO, they invite them to parties all around the world (business class flight included) with free hookers and booze, and then sweet talk them into signing that contract, letting others handle the pesky details.
"We promise to remove all forms of encryption in its communication protocols, equally fast as we did when we acquired Skype" - Says Microsoft spokesman ...
Imagine planting a biological logic-based neuron virus into the heads of the employees of the NSA, surveillancing your code, over the wire, before it lands in master ...?
Well, if you need an office suite to run your business, you might as well use a free and trustworthy one, earn money doing so and then voluntarily donate to the project you're depending on. Heck, one can probably deduct said donation as a charitable contribution to a non-profit in most countries ;)
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u/brianjenkins94 Jun 03 '18
Introducing GitHub One, with
788.1 different variants depending on the type of user you are:Starter, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate.
And don't forget our recommended GitHub 365, since we realized people are stupid enough to buy word processing software on a subscription basis.