Licensing That's Restrictive and BSD News
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Licensing / Legal
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The Register UK ☛ Restrictive licensing keeps businesses grounded in cloud vendor vortex
A study, conducted by Savanta and funded by the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe), surveyed 1,242 IT decision-makers in France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and the UK. The report found that there was potential in the cloud markets for considerable growth – only 22 percent of respondents described themselves as "fully in the cloud" – yet a desire for choice in cloud vendor was being held back by restrictive licensing terms.
Of those considering a switch of cloud vendor, 40 percent claimed existing licensing terms meant that on-premises licenses could not be taken to another vendor. A further 40 percent were worried about losing discounts.
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BSD
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Nico Cartron ☛ One less Raspberry Pi, one more FreeBSD Jail for my home automation!
Since I didn't want to have yet another failed Raspbian upgrade, I decided to move that setup to a FreeBSD Jail running on my TrueNAS server.
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Benny Siegert ☛ NetBSD 10: Thirty Years, Still Going Strong!
Another strength of NetBSD is its package system, pkgsrc, which is portable to dozens of other OSes and can even be used like virtualenv for development and deployment environments.
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