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Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops
judgecorp writes "As the recession bites, software auditors are cracking down, and some are simply exploiting loopholes and technicalities to meet their targets, according to analyst Forrester. They may be within their rights, but they aren't endearing themselves to users; Steve Ballmer faced weary customers in London last year, and admitted Windows licenses have deliberate 'gotchas.'"
Since you don't use Intel, AMD, SPARC, POWER, PPC, 68k, ARM, or other processors with closed source software embedded in them what exactly do you use? And where did you manage to find open disk drives?
Visit their facilities theses days and you will find quite a few Windows boxes around. Guess Linux didn't work out like they thought it would.
Who here has been audited by Red Hat? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
Too late to be known as Bush the First, he's sure to be known as Bush the Worst.
"Stories like this"? Wow, so you refuse to use Adobe because they expect people who use their products to buy them? That makes sense.
Sounds great. So I'll just throw away the resumes of Argentinian programmers who apply to me for jobs because they say their country is a horrible place to make a living in, since they're obviously lying. I'd be doing them a favour by making them stay there.