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I think most software publishers define what they consider to be acceptable piracy - be it in their own customer base (so-called unintentional piracy) or malicious piracy (sometimes considered a good viral way to spread your product). But from the enterprise (i.e., a corporation) perspective , keeping honest-people-honest is no longer an option, due to compliance. So, the irony is - that the software publisher is actually helping their corporate customers by providing the right mechanisms built into the product to keep their usage honest. Software publisher wins (reduce piracy); Enterprise customer wins (reduced compliance monitoring challenges). Of course, all this has to be done keeping the other P's in mind!
The Three P's of Licensing
by Prakash Panjwani I don’t know if they teach this in every MBA program, but I am sure you have heard that every business case can be boiled down to a certain number of “P”s. It is just a question of how many…some have 4 P’s, some have 5; but in this world of Twitter and brevity, I am going to ...
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