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10-11-2009, 08:00 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,375 Rep:	LXer: Microsoft reveals time-based licensing model Published at LXer: Microsoft has filed for a patent for ‘Time-Based Licenses’ and the application abstract reveals this to be a method and system for “issuing a number of different types of time-based licenses associated with software products”. [So if you can't make your Windows payments on time they turn your computer into a paperweight and/or make it illegal to use? - Scott] Read More...

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