[MichaelGG]

No I'm not confused - I was giving an example of stuff I've heard from clients. MSDN makes it really clear it's for dev not day-to-day ops. But people don't get that.

I'd be surprised if you get "nailed" if a reseller went over a scenario and licensed you. Worst case is if they can prove maliciousness and fine you. If the reseller calculated things and came to a reasonable (but lower) number I'd be surprised if that's gonna really hurt.

Agreed though that MS's licensing is terribly annoying. But it's a lower Total Cost of Ownership, right?!

[thomaskcr]

Ah sorry, yes I was one of those people -- we had like half an office using MSDN licenses. Just didn't know better (they give us 10, we'll buy another MSDN license when we run out!).