Waging War on Business

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Michelle,

Well, it is that company's responsibility to keep track of all software they
own.  If the necessary items showing the company is a licensed user have
been lost, then I guess the company would need to go out and purchase a new
copy of Page Maker and learn the valuable lesson.  Violation of the license
agreement is violation...

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michelle Lowman" <mlowman@firstlinux.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Waging War on Business


> 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?
>
>
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