culture of *NIX

[Kevin Brown]

> 1. I have to govern my own conscience and no one elses - I didn't work on
> it,
>    aid in the setup, show them how to disable license checking etc or in any
>    way, encourage the use of an illegal copy.
> 
> 2. They won't be the first nor the last company to hang a db on a machine
>    directly exposed to the internet. The scary part of this - an this could
>    apply to any company that you deal with is that they could put the
>    database with cc#'s, the same one with telephone orders so you are in
>    reality, no safer calling in your cc# orders than you are ordering via
>    the internet.
> 
> 3. If I call BSA, it would seem like sour grapes on my part and I want any
>    customer that I deal with to freely choose not to use me any longer
> without
>    fear of retribution and without fear that I will restrict their computer
>    usage in any way, shape or form. I won't withhold passwords, etc.
> 
> >From what I've seen in the setup of Win2K server, it generates its own
> broadcast to Microsoft servers and every network attempt to reach Microsoft
> Web, Updates etc. generates some probes of ports 53 and 515 so I think they
> get clued in fairly quickly anyway. It also seems to me that on May 9th, the
> 30 days grace period for licensing registration ends and various services
> such as terminal, file and print services will shut down. Time wounds all
> heels.

If this won't hurt your conscience, then how about letting us know who this
person is if they do business on the web so that we won't put ourselves at risk
by buying from someone who would put our CC# on a box accessible from the web.