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Microsoft to Get Tough on License Dodgers
An anonymous reader writes "PC Advisor reports that Microsoft is going to start getting tough with certain small business customers. They are going to examine their small customer license database — any discrepancies and it will call you for an audit. If you refuse it will send in the BSA and the legal heavies. "
Linux and OS X can easily take care of much of the market.
OS X is viable, assuming you don't mind paying twice as much for your hardware and software, and having draconian vendor lock-in, the likes of which MS hasn't even attempted. Linux doesn't even have a decent accounting package that runs on it. So, unless you do all of your accounting with pencil and paper, Linux isn't really all that viable for most companies, I'd think.
I don't respond to AC's.
A monopoly product? Aha! So you finally admit it, Mac OS and Linux are clearly not good enough to be considered as alternatives.
Along the same lines, I would like to have all the people who drive above the speed limit ticketed with zero tolerance.
Sure, your wife is giving birth. Sorry, you should have planned your trip properly that you wouldn't have to speed. Had an emergency. Should have used proper planning before getting into a situation that entailed this.
Software is inherently copyable. Sometimes there are reasons when software is copied and used that I used say is OK.
Trying to have your cake and eat it too is what software corps want to make it out to be. But, in reality it's like having a lit candle and offering the flame to someone else. If their candle is lit with your candle, you don't lose your flame.
The Check against this kind of Bullshit has long since been outlawed. That being, you receive the notice, and politely call them up and invite them over to discuss the matter. When the agents arrive, You execute them on the spot, disembowel them, and send the entrails and severed heads back to their bosses in a sack. The correct, considered, measured response to thuggery is agressive self defense.