Waging War on Business

[Michelle Lowman]

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 21:01, Darrell Shandrow wrote:
> Hi Jim,
> 
> Yes.  That's the neat aspect to America; if one doesn't like one option,
> there's usually another available.  The neat thing about technology in
> America is that there's enough openness and tools to write a program to do
> anything with a computer!  So, there are alternatives, and theft remains
> both illegal and unethical.
> 
> Darrell Shandrow - Shandrow Communications!

True situation: Temp goes to work for a small company, needs to use
PageMaker. Company originally had 4 legal copies, one for each computer
in the (tiny) department. Over the past couple of years, three of the
PageMaker CDs have somehow disappeared, even though the original
packaging, user manual, etc. are still around. Hmmmmm . . ..

Anyway, at some point, someone has removed the legal copy of PageMaker
from the computer used by the temp, and the CD for that copy is gone.  
So the supervisor decides to install PageMaker on the temp's computer
from her own CD (the copy on her computer was installed from the same
CD).

The temp's computer now has an illegal copy of PageMaker, and the
company is now screwed if BSA gets a tip about them. Did the company
steal?  Or do they just suck at security and management?