The Slanted Blog

In the first ever, “Did You Know” article, we will be discussing the topic of Software Licensing.

In my 20+ years in the field of Information Technology, this is a topic that I have faced quite often. It is also a topic with many different views, questions and practices. Therefore, I decided that it would be a good idea to cover what I’ve learned. Consider the following scenarios (of which I’ve seen all of them).

I was thinking about this quote from the movie this morning as I prepared to run slides for Sunday morning church. While I don’t believe that we’re in a battle for the survival of the species, we ARE in unprecedented times. There were a little over a dozen recessions in the 20th centuries. If you’ve looked at all the indicators and listened to the pundits, we are about to enter one again. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought all markets and business activities around the world to a screeching halt.

I never thought it would come to this, but conversations over the last several months in my house have given credence to the idea that I need to supply my family with a dictionary of terms. The list contains what sounds like everyday terms or phrases with entirely different meanings.