Business software alliance is very aggressive about going after license abusers.
They can swoop in on a business, audit their systems, and cause no end of
trouble should they be found out of compliance.
As a Microsoft Channel Partner, one of the services we offer is confidential
software compliance auditing, which will provide businesses a method of tracking
their own compliance without it being reported to anyone outside their company.
This process makes available to the client discounted licensing or enterprise
licensing in order to protect themselves against claims of violation. This
service will test many publishers and not just Microsoft.
It is a known that there are many that will legally purchase one copy of Office,
for instance and then install it on multiple machines as opposed to a network
install. The threat of full retail licensing and stiff fines, put this type of
user at great risk.
Not surprising is that the vast majority of violations are reported from the
inside, as opposed to being "discovered" from the outside.
On the other hand, the publishers' License or EULA has traditionally been very
one-sided, buried in obscurity and rarely examined by end users. For instance,
how many people actually realize that they are violating the Microsoft Office
license if they run the applications on any operating system other than
Microsoft Windows?
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Dinowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 12:50 AM
Subject: reporting
| If I knew of a company who was using bootleg software and abusing licenses of
| commercial applications (Microsoft, Macromedia, etc.), where would I go to
| report them?
| Thanks
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| Michael Dinowitz
| Finding technical solutions to the problems you didn't know you had yet
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