On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> Speaking as a vendor here -- and at the risk of flames -- it's not just > "bad" customers. With the amount of outsourcing, turnover, overwork and > layoffs of skilled people we were seeing a fair amount of "inadvertent" > license violation before we implemented the serial number check. Junior > sysprogs or managers who just assumed they could install the software on > another LPAR. > Or maybe moved a system image from one CEC to a different one (upgrade / side-grade due to hardware problem). I couldn't think of a better word that "bad" which is why I put it in quotes. They are "bad" because they aren't taking the time to do the job correctly for some reason. Not that I'm blaming the technicians, necessarily. Sometimes the customer is "bad" because they can't find competent people, or don't want to pay what the persons demands, or any number of other reasons which don't imply "moral turpitude" or even "excessive management greed". > > Charles > > -- Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer Unicode: http://xkcd.com/1726/ Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
