The following video humorously illustrates the harrowing clauses in modern software licesing.
The given perspective of five years (2010 - 2015) offers us a very short timeframe. During those five years, a lot of the applications are bound to go online. Google Inc. has shown remarkable success in producing online software (Google Docs, Chrome OS) and this a growing trend.
This is something that may have an impact on proprietary software and on software licencing in general. Today Microsoft doesn't have to worry about free Unix based platforms, since there is a much bigger threat on the horizon - Google.
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