Hier exklusiv und live, das habe ich gerade eben an Microsoft geschickt:
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Gentlemen,
I am the responsible person for software purchases here for DV Kombinat GmbH.
Recently software piracy was mentioned pretty often in the german news and
also on several homepages, which brought up our concern about licencing.
Here is our Problem:
In 1998 we've got the advice from our software consultant to deinstall
Windows98, which came with all of our CPUs as the OEM operating system in the
first place. The reason for that was that the word came out that windows had
to registered "by seat". Unfortunately we're a pretty small business, at
least 4 people are working with the same computer, in different shifts. This
licencing model would have exceeded our budget.
So what we did by this advice was installing RedHat Linux for the clients and
Debian Linux for the file server.
This all works pretty good right now, no blue screens with hex digits etc,
but now we are concerned if we're still legal, since all the software (RedHat
Linux 7.0, staroffice 5.2, Koffice, Ximian Gnome?!) came on burned CDs,
without certificates, registration keys etc. The company that installed all
that claims that this software is "free", the only charge would be
maintenance?! Any advice?
Regards,
Patrick Glanz
DV Kombinat purchases supervisor
DV-Kombinat GmbH
Am Bahnhof 7
55288 Armsheim
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