Cumbersome and Inefficient

[hsienloong]

Second-Hand Software Sales Set to Soar on Oracle Ruling.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...tware-sales-set-to-soar-on-oracle-ruling.html

They quote a price, typically 30 percent to 70 percent of the original cost.
The intermediaries usually take a cut of about 30 percent of the deal.

Town Council Software License still got a resale market value of 30 to 70%
of the original price.

 

[hsienloong]

Possible copyright infringement.

The original licensee must not carry on using the software after the sale, otherwise it will be infringing copyright. It must make its own copy
of the software “unusable”. Technical protection measures may provide some help, but in practice it will be hard for Oracle and other software houses
to be absolutely sure whether the original customer is still using in parallel with the acquirer of the second-hand copy.

http://m.mayerbrown.com/files/Publi...pdate_aug12_software-licence-transferable.pdf

 

[winnipegjets]

Can one MP visit 100k or more homes?

Have you heard of social media?

 

[winnipegjets]

They had been proven right, opposition can't run TC as well as,pap

Says who? Your opinion or that of the PAP mean nothing.

 

[winnipegjets]

It is cumbersome and inefficient to have two ministers, minister of state and parliamentary secretaries to helm one ministry. Save some serious dough by getting rid of the unnecessary appointments.

 

[Fook Seng]

correct me if wrong.

parliamentary seats are fixed to population, not size. USA not like that ?

in UK, it is 1 MP to 40-50K people.

Difficult to equate absolute figures like these across international borders especially between normal countries and city states like Singapore. In a city state where distances are closer, a constituency should be able to support a larger population.