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. "

Comments

Re:It's so easy..

[DogDude]

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.

Unfortunately,

[Cadallin]

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.