Sure, you can counter sue but you do have to prove it to the judge that it was frivolous. If the have 'sworn testimony' chances are the judge will dismiss it and you are out even more.
Not saying don't fight or what is right, but there is always the chance that being right will cost you.
Yes, at least from the standpoint of Microsoft calling us. They had noticed we dropped the MOLP ( i felt it was a waste in or case, for various reasons ) so we sent them a copy of our PO from CDW when i did a 'retail price upgrade' instead and they went away.
The company where i was the IT manager did not break any licenses. It was a mess when i first got there but within a month it everything was inventoried and either licenses were purchased or the software was gone. Didn't like playing hard ball but it was needed and afterward everyone was a lot happier since they got upgrades in the process:)
After the rebuilds, a weekly audit was run and a 'diff' was applied to see if anything managed to sneak in by accident, which never happened the time i was there.
If you don't have actual hard receipts, purchase orders from your vendor and records from accounting that you paid the bills will normally suffice as a audit trail.
That would not stop an ex employee from making false claims and causing another costly suit. Even if you win at court, you still lose time, money, resources.
"going free' wont stop a current disgruntled ( or not ) employee from adding something to your network that isn't licensed. Even if you lock them down so they cant install, they can still save files.....
They should use what software they need to use in order to do their business. If its free, great, if its not, that's great too.
Tell them to go to hell and prove it in front of a judge and get a warrant. Don't let them in just beacuse they want to. Take your documentation for licenses and installs to court and show it to the judge. "we did an audit, this is what we use and we are licensed for these copies"
Also assume this "disgruntled ex-employee" planted something somewhere, so do another audit NOW.
Yes it would be nice if unlimited meant truly unlimited, but we are all adult enough to realize that was never the case in any market for any commodity at any time in the history of earth. There are always limits.
So, since we are 'all adults' its OK to oversell and lie to customers? There is no excuse for dishonest practices, and just blowing it off is why we suffer with them.
I don't think it has anything to do with a rising interest in IT. its that women need jobs these days too, due to the economy, so i bet you will find ALL industries are increasing their woman count. Especially 'clean' jobs since most women ( or men really ) don't want to go out and dig ditches for a living.
Leave the purchasing of apps to the iOS chumps who have to jailbreak to even get close to what Android does out of the box.
Ok, so ios users are chumps beacuse they jailbreak to do cool stuff, but ( using your example ) a nook color user is cool beacuse he had to root his device to do cool stuff..
ya, makes a lot of sense to me. Talk about hypocrisy.
Wile i agree that the eventual standards that came out of it did help the industry overall, i do think that if IBM had not come around we would still have seen a convergence of standards by the 90's, but we still would have choices.
I could see a flicker of this before MS/IBM, just that it didn't have time to happen.
Its beacuse IBM didn't think the PC was going to amount to anything, so didn't waste resources to put their good people on it. If they had decent attorneys reviewing things, that contract would never have been signed.
Sad really.
That and they colluded to be sure cp/m was unable to compete due to price.
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
Why is everybody so wedded to this notion of these products being bought only by hipsters who wish to be seen with one? My observations show me as many people with sore hips have them as any other demographic.
its physiological fall out from all the class-warfare that is being shoved down our throats 24/7.
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Not just grandmothers, but also people that violated some RIAA copyright and now will get burnt.
Sure, you can counter sue but you do have to prove it to the judge that it was frivolous. If the have 'sworn testimony' chances are the judge will dismiss it and you are out even more.
Not saying don't fight or what is right, but there is always the chance that being right will cost you.
Yes, at least from the standpoint of Microsoft calling us. They had noticed we dropped the MOLP ( i felt it was a waste in or case, for various reasons ) so we sent them a copy of our PO from CDW when i did a 'retail price upgrade' instead and they went away.
With super low use caps..
The company where i was the IT manager did not break any licenses. It was a mess when i first got there but within a month it everything was inventoried and either licenses were purchased or the software was gone. Didn't like playing hard ball but it was needed and afterward everyone was a lot happier since they got upgrades in the process :)
After the rebuilds, a weekly audit was run and a 'diff' was applied to see if anything managed to sneak in by accident, which never happened the time i was there.
If you don't have actual hard receipts, purchase orders from your vendor and records from accounting that you paid the bills will normally suffice as a audit trail.
That would not stop an ex employee from making false claims and causing another costly suit. Even if you win at court, you still lose time, money, resources.
"going free' wont stop a current disgruntled ( or not ) employee from adding something to your network that isn't licensed. Even if you lock them down so they cant install, they can still save files.....
They should use what software they need to use in order to do their business. If its free, great, if its not, that's great too.
For a civil suit just the witness is normally enough. However, winning, or even getting a search warrant, with zero evidence is a different matter.
Tell them to go to hell and prove it in front of a judge and get a warrant. Don't let them in just beacuse they want to. Take your documentation for licenses and installs to court and show it to the judge. "we did an audit, this is what we use and we are licensed for these copies"
Also assume this "disgruntled ex-employee" planted something somewhere, so do another audit NOW.
Why do that when you can have adhoc wifi at the least.. or just carry a mini switch and some extra cat5.
1 - Anonymous redirection, something like TOR
2 - Forbid anything of theirs to run on your computer.
And then, for #3. Find out who is using it and boycott their companies products/services.
I would rather not have my email under the control of a 3rd party.
if i'm stupid enough to fall for a 419, then i deserve it.
Sounds like you are describing freenet :)
however, with bandwidth caps it will become academic here soon anyway.
So if they do enforce this and limit your rates, what does this amount to per month total in practical numbers?
Does this reduce your total potential data 'limit' below the other 'limited' plans or do you still get more?
Yes it would be nice if unlimited meant truly unlimited, but we are all adult enough to realize that was never the case in any market for any commodity at any time in the history of earth. There are always limits.
So, since we are 'all adults' its OK to oversell and lie to customers? There is no excuse for dishonest practices, and just blowing it off is why we suffer with them.
You agreed to them changing things at their whim.. All they have to do is notify you and they can change it.
But i agree with you in that its uncool, and unfortunately expected.
More like scam.
I don't think it has anything to do with a rising interest in IT. its that women need jobs these days too, due to the economy, so i bet you will find ALL industries are increasing their woman count. Especially 'clean' jobs since most women ( or men really ) don't want to go out and dig ditches for a living.
Umm no thanks.
Leave the purchasing of apps to the iOS chumps who have to jailbreak to even get close to what Android does out of the box.
Ok, so ios users are chumps beacuse they jailbreak to do cool stuff, but ( using your example ) a nook color user is cool beacuse he had to root his device to do cool stuff..
ya, makes a lot of sense to me. Talk about hypocrisy.
Wile i agree that the eventual standards that came out of it did help the industry overall, i do think that if IBM had not come around we would still have seen a convergence of standards by the 90's, but we still would have choices.
I could see a flicker of this before MS/IBM, just that it didn't have time to happen.
Its beacuse IBM didn't think the PC was going to amount to anything, so didn't waste resources to put their good people on it. If they had decent attorneys reviewing things, that contract would never have been signed.
Sad really.
That and they colluded to be sure cp/m was unable to compete due to price.
So walmart will team with Google and become an ISP. Then offer tiered network access where if you stream from them, it doesn't apply to your monthly cap.
its *ALL* fake. Either pissed off people or paid supports.
Why is everybody so wedded to this notion of these products being bought only by hipsters who wish to be seen with one? My observations show me as many people with sore hips have them as any other demographic.
its physiological fall out from all the class-warfare that is being shoved down our throats 24/7.