Missed a bit on this, and hit send too soon.
Frankly, in a your situation, I'd never take the work home - too much room for getting impaled on a lawsuit. I'd set up multiple machines to hold the hard drives and launch the software to run while I'm gone. Also, my favorite disk eraser is a 2lb hammer, applied at arm's length about 4 times. :) Kurt On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 5:56 PM, D R <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an open question to everyone on this list. Thanks in advance. > > Question: What would you do if a company 'requires' you to download freeware > to be used in a corporate setting? > > Issue: Currently on a contract and the employer is requiring the > technician(s) to download software from the net to wipe hard drives for a > computer swap out. Old computer needs the hard drive wiped. But, they want > the technician(s) to download freeware and use that in a corporate setting. > But, these computers are in a corporate/bank environment. They have > allocated only so much time per machine to perform a capture/backup of the > user profile and a restore to be done. Once the restore is complete, they do > want the user to verify if all of there software, (MS Office, etc.,) before > the wipe is done on the drive. > > I don't mind using freeware to work on mine, or a friend's computer, to get > something taken care of. But requiring the technician to download and use > freeware in a corporate setting is something entirely different. Don't most > of the EULA/GNU License agreements stipulate it is ok for the software to be > used, for individual use, but in business/corporate setting that a > multi-use/group license must be purchased? > > Also, if you were the technician, and a manager, who is in charge of this > contract, told you it was 'ok' to take home a laptop/desktop so you could > finish doing the wipe of the hard drive, after you have submitted your time, > wouldn't you find that suspect? I do. And on so many levels, too. > > Thoughts? > > -- > Daniel Rodriguez > [email protected]
