https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/tags/licensing/ Recent content in Licensing on Damien Dye's Blog Hugo en-GB Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/moving-an-oem-licence-into-a-proxmox-vm/ Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/proxmox/moving-an-oem-licence-into-a-proxmox-vm/ How the OEM licence in a PC's firmware, the ACPI MSDM table, gets into a Proxmox VM: reading it, validating it before QEMU fixes up a broken one, storing it root-only in pmxcfs, and Microsoft's own terms on moving it, including one VM on the licensed machine and why volume licences never use it. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/technology-you-rent/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/technology-you-rent/ Part 1 of 8. Twenty years back you bought software and the copy was yours. Now you rent it, and the supplier sets the terms. This post walks through how that happened, one step at a time, and why every step made it harder to pack up and go elsewhere. Plain language, short lines. https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/who-pays-for-the-software/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 https://blogs.damiendye.uk/en/random/who-pays-for-the-software/ Part 3 of 8. The first two posts looked at what dependency costs you; this one at who else foots the bill. Open source was fought for about 15 years, then taken up, and much of it is now kept going by people paid nowt for it. And how the firms that build software get bought, borrowed against and stripped of what other folk built.