[gumby]

Reminds me of a sales call to a military contractor. They were interested in an Open Source OS because of the licensing costs. The embedded OS they were using had a license that said you could run as many instances as you liked on a "single device".

Their problem was that when they operated their device it was indeed a single device, but later became many more. If they paid for the extra licenses they didn't need it would be ripping off the government; if they failed to pay for the extra license at some point they would be in breach of their contract with the government as all these unlicensed devices were released.

It rapidly became obvious that their application was a MIRV and that they weren't really going to change but had asked us to talk with them as part of their process of negotiating a deal with their current supplier.

It's hard to imagine really worrying about your license agreements if there actually were a global thermonuclear war.

[personjerry]

That reminds me of a short sci-fi story I read about an alien invasion, in which humans were losing horribly until we learned about their legal system and sued them into submission

[nocoiner]

That is an amazing story.