Timeline for Should licencing questions really be closed even when it is massive vendor with standard practices worldwide? [duplicate]
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| Feb 20, 2013 at 22:58 | history | closed |
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| Feb 20, 2013 at 14:19 | comment | added | JamesRyan | But it might be a correct answer. Pls stop providing contrived examples that are not a true comparison. It doesn't make your point. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 18:58 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @JamesRyan and if we got questions about "what is the 2nd option of the 3rd menu in IIS" they'd be closed too. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 17:23 | comment | added | JamesRyan | Can you tell me for certain that the 2nd option of the 3rd menu in IIS is the same in every region around the world? No. That doesn't stop people asking and answering IIS questions. Your example is flawed by the fact that any answer is qualified. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 16:44 | comment | added | the-wabbit | Just an additional point: what you think of to have a worldwide acceptable answer of "no" simply doesn't. The question does not even address what license programme the licenses are going to be bought under - and Microsoft has plenty. Is it FPP? Is it Open License? Open Value? Enterprise Agreement? Is it SPLA? Is it a School Agreement? Is it something else? Is the licensing model per device or per user? Can you with absolute certainty tell that the answer would be "No" for any Microsoft licensing model in all world regions? You can't because you never even heard of most of them? Q.E.D. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | JamesRyan | (also the question is different in that I specifically ruled out legal advice - although as demonstrated by various responses a lot of people don't understand context (in itself that shows you can't expect them to :P )) | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:46 | vote | accept | JamesRyan | ||
| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:38 | comment | added | JamesRyan | It's still not. Merely that stackexchange has no way to deal with staleness or time sensitivity. That question is 3 years old, the consensus may be the same now but that doesn't make it a waste of time revisiting the issue if only to confirm that that is still the case. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 15:13 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Still looks like a dupe to me. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:52 | comment | added | tombull89 | It also may depend on StackExchange themselves - they may not want questions that cover a legal basis. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:51 | comment | added | tombull89 | We're Sysadmins, so we know servers better than we do licensing. If a technical answer is wrong or potentially dangerous, it would get downvoted and likely commented on that it's the wrong thing to do. Also, if you take everything on the internet at face value then, well... | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:47 | comment | added | JamesRyan | I guess the real problem is we don't have a satisfactory way of identifying experts and the current methods vaguely work because the general user of this site is a bit technical. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some stack exchange communities do so much worse than others too. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:45 | comment | added | JamesRyan | The problem of not mentioning something vital could just as easily come up with a technical question too. And have equally as bad consequences for the OP | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:32 | comment | added | tombull89 | Okay. Let's say we accept licencing questions. Someone asks on deoplying Windows 7 and someone replys saying "yup, we do this. It costs us X, needs Y and Z". They do that and then Microsoft picks the OP up and fines them a ton of money because the person that replied works for education and didn't mention it. Whoops. It's a huge area with so many different variables - even EU countires have different laws so you'd have a lot of very localised questions. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:26 | comment | added | JamesRyan | I think the point that people are missing is that ANY question is a legal question in that respect. The subject is irrelevant. Ironically a tech professional is far less legally responsible giving legal advice than tech advice precisely because it is not their claimed area of expertise! But the overall assumption which everyone seems to be making which I don't accept is that everyone is qualified to answer a tech question but noone is qualified to answer a legal question. How do you know that the answerer is not MS certified in licencing for example? | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 13:04 | comment | added | Dan | With regards to your addendum - my argument isn't that we WILL be help responsible, it's that licensing questions are legal questions by their very nature. As such, they are inherently complex, open to interpretation and the only way to ensure you're the right side of it so to deal directly with the vendor or an authorized third party. Technical advice is nothing like legal advice. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:58 | comment | added | JamesRyan | Well then please realise how uncivil it is to lazily mark a question as a duplicate without bothering to comment or answer. I took the time to think about whether it was a new question or not before I created it. I saw the previous one and am really asking, if it is the case that feeling among people is that this is still a good policy? | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:55 | answer | added | sysadmin1138Mod | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:43 | history | edited | JamesRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:42 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | There isn't any need for that tone - please remain civil. | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:39 | answer | added | user9517Mod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:39 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:38 | comment | added | JamesRyan | It damn well isn't a duplicate of that question! | |
| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:29 | history | edited | JamesRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 19, 2013 at 12:22 | history | asked | JamesRyan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |