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Windependence Day

Posted by michael on from the man-is-born-free-and-everywhere-he-is-in-chains dept.

An unknown reader points us to the Windependence Day contest sponsored by DesktopLinux. Cute idea, and I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip...

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  1. Windependence Day, my story. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative


    I recently switched. Just my laptop, for now...

    My company volunteered for a BSA audit some months ago.

    We were short some licenses; we rectified the situation before sending our report back to the BSA, indicating while we had been short some licenses, we were currently in compliance...

    This overage involved approximately 10% of our client machines...

    We relaxed, thinking we'd done good ethically and morally, by owing up to our discretion and paying for it...

    Then we were sued...

    Not for the the 10% of our clients that were out of license...

    For a sum equal to the entire -retail- value of all BSA represented software at our organization...

    Paid for yesterday, or three years ago, or five, or more...

    Essentially, they want us to pay for every piece of BSA software (we currently use) twice...

    My Windependence day happened a month ago...

    Just my laptop...

    25 machines on our network use mission critical MS-only systems...

    That's less that 3%...

    Last month MS lost 1 customer...

    Just my laptop...

    The other 900+ systems on our network...

    Well...

    They're good for now...