Licenses Quotes
Well, negotiations are under way with Merck and other companies to work more closely together hopefully. We've already achieved significant price reductions for two of the recent therapies. But in the future, we frankly want more flexibility when it comes to licenses and other legal issues. Are we going to talk about this in terms of breaking a patent or saving lives?
- Rosemeire Munhoz
We talked to peers who have done it, and we had about 200 hours of internal discussion to identify our own best practices and to decide which partners to bring to the table. You have to pick your vendor partners wisely. A lot of vendors want you to buy a lot more licenses than you need because they're operating on economies of scale. Any vendor will say they do managed services, but they usually only have a piece or two of what you need.
- Alan McDonald
We support the democratic will of the people. It won't affect our business. I'd say 20 to 30 percent of our clientele smokes. But an owner should have the right to be a smoking place. Maybe they should have licenses where you get to be a smoking bar. We have three filters and huge industrial exhaust fans anyway. We wouldn't have to worry about that anymore.
- Tim Tuten
We recognize that some provisions in our existing Windows licenses have been ruled improper by the court, so we are providing computer manufacturers with greater flexibility and we are doing this immediately so that computer manufacturers can take advantage of them in planning for the upcoming release of Windows XP.
- Steve Ballmer
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