Waging War on Business

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 07:16, Michelle Lowman wrote:
> 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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The answer to the above is yes

Company is responsible for the software installed on all the computers.
BSA (or Adobe or Microsoft or ???) apparently can challenge company to
prove that it has licenses for all software currently in use.

The details of how things got installed where are immaterial.

Craig