Both Microsoft and Google have traditionally been «partner» companies, meaning
they simply license their software to hardware makers to do with as they please.
Not exact matches
You don't own the
software, you're
simply buying a
license to use it.
The
software really only does bother itself with
licensing Alpha Protocol so if it was to be left behind it would have nothing to do and you
simply wouldn't notice it and suffer penalty from it.
No individuals who buy a copy of a game own the game: they
simply purchase a copy of the
software and a
license to play it.
Firms don't need to
simply decide to use one piece of
software and then pay the annual
license fee for hundreds of attorneys and staff to use the
software without ever testing it.
Adriana Linares: Right, so every time I get a new PC, and I want to, let's say I'm going to decommission my PC laptop, I go — I log into my account, my Microsoft account using that Microsoft account email that like you just said, I don't have to use for anything other than logging into Microsoft, and in there I can go in it, it'll show me a list of the four - five machines that I've used my
license on and I can say, okay, revoke access on that PC because I'm about to give it to my mom, and then I go to my new PC that I just bought and I
simply log in into my account and it will download the
software and install it and make that
license available on that new machine.
Most open - source
software is free to consumers and falls under the General Public
License (GPL), which allows any developer to modify and redistribute the original work by simply complying with the initial license of the so
License (GPL), which allows any developer to modify and redistribute the original work by
simply complying with the initial
license of the so
license of the
software.