[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 11:55:15AM +0000, Ian Lynch wrote: >> I have just had a rather disturbing phone call from a client school. >> Apparently some FAST (Federation against Software Theft) bully has just >> been scaring them to death about software licensing, mentioning prison >> sentences and such like and then offering to audit their systems if they >> pay �5000. > > Coo, I would tell the school to speak to their legal beagles at the LEA > (or whoever deals with this) and see if they can do nasty things back at > FAST and at the same time the school involved should of course remind > all the other schools about software licensing and inform them of the > alternatives.
Hell, I'd suggest: 1) Trading Standards - they're always up for a fight :-> 2) Local police - demanding money with menaces, that sounds like. 3) Local paper - "Business threatens local school" :-> cheers, Rich. -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
