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Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

Where do you propose I buy critical enterprise software instead?

1: Reevaluate which software is "critical" to your enterprise.

2: Use open source when possible.

3: If it truly is "critical" and there's no other alternative that can do what you need, then sure. "Buy" it, I guess. (Actually, rent a license for it, lol.) That may make financial sense if you're using that software to make more money than the software costs. I'm not your supervisor, and I'm not your mommy. You can do what you want.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    But I can't spend money on that. How am I supposed to respect it? Who do I blame when something goes wrong?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's a risk management problem.

    One of the problems of FOSS is that they offer no warranty. Which big companies don't like.

    Some FOSS products do offer a paid alternative license that offers support and warranty.

    But if they don't, you have to do the risk management. What are the chances of the risk occurring? And what would be the impact?

    The risks of office software risk are not that big though:

    1. Data loss
    2. Incorrect calculations
    3. Final PDF not looking like it should (maybe an image moved around)

    The probability of 3 is high, 1 is low, and 2 is very low. The impact of 3 is low, 2 is medium and 1 is high.

    1. Is easily avoidable by doing frequent saves and having a backup. Which you should do even with proprietary software.
    2. This one's probability is so low you don't need to care a lot about it. Just make sure to double-check the output when you're using a tool for the first time to see if it does what you want. And keep an eye out for suspicious results, they may be the result of a bug.
    3. Open every PDF and do a fast inspection to check that everything's good. If it's not, try an alternative PDF conversion method, there's a lot. If that doesn't work there's not much more you can do.
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