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Another duh. This is why most software should be free. Leasing software... such an old thing.
Another duh. This is why most software should be free. Leasing software... such an old thing.
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IBM is one of the companies that probably has the most first-hand experience of alternative pricing mechanisms. It has been billing for mainframe use this way for decades, with charges based on computing cycles used rather than on how many processors or physical machines are used to accomplish the task. "We have had a virtualized, shared infrastructure on our mainframe for 40 years now," said Rich Lechner, vice president of virtualization at IBM.