Waging War on Business

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi William,

In some ways, this practice does not seem overly unreasonable to me.  After
all, stealing is stealing.  Its one thing for home users to do this, but it
is quite another more serious matter for a business to be using stolen
software as tools to make money!  If a business is doing the right thing
with respect to its software use, then there should be no need for amnesty
or for worries about what a disgruntled employee might say.  Just my $.02...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "William Lindley" <wlindley@wlindley.com>
To: "Phoenix Linux Users Group" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 4:53 PM
Subject: Waging War on Business


> How do you spell extortion? BSA, RIAA, DMCA
> (InfoWorld)  By Tom  Yager January 31, 2003
>
> In Dallas , the Business Software Alliance (BSA) is running radio ads
> offering amnesty to businesses. Confess your companywide software piracy
> before the end of February, the announcer gently offers, and you'll only
> have to pay your overdue license fees. That seems reasonable enough, but
> then the ad turns dark. If you have just one disgruntled ex-employee out
> there, a BSA spokesperson intones, his call to the BSA could cost you
> $150,000 for each user it deems unlicensed. One disgruntled ex-employee,
> one competitor, one vendor that couldn't sell you a license renewal -- a
> tip's a tip.
>
> Rest of the story --
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/31/05estrat_1.html?business
>
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