The problem here is they don't have any specific evidence to show that there are license violations; Microsoft is basically extorting the taxpayers on this. This is just more of those infamous Microsoft business tactics that have made so many people hate them...
I think the school district should tell them to get a court order, and challenge their legally-questionable EULA.
Meanwhile, a lot of people on slashdot are volunteering to help them migrate to Linux. :-)
The problem here is they don't have any specific evidence to show that there are license violations;
Sorry, Knotts. The license specifically gives MS the right to audit enterprise customers.
Microsoft is basically extorting the taxpayers on this. This is just more of those infamous Microsoft business tactics that have made so many people hate them...
Awwwww, my heart just breaks over all your widdle hurt fee-wings. Read this:
http://wsrn.com/apps/news/art.xpl?id=4239669&f=NEWS&s=MSFT. MS has been screwed for years by people stealing its software -- and enterprises are generally the worst offenders. Sorry, no sympathy here. Either pay, or stop using the software.
I think the school district should tell them to get a court order, and challenge their legally-questionable EULA.
It's a contract, Knotts. I know that that's
inconvenient -- you know, signing a document and actually having to live up to the terms -- but it's reality. And it would be pretty funny seeing the school district pay for a bunch of fancy lawyers in its current so-called "cash-strapped" state (which I don't buy for a minute). The only reason they're having problems complying is they have a bloated bureacracy that can't tie its own shoelaces -- a bureaucracy, I might add, that costs twice as much per student as other industrialized nations and can't meet the same quality bar ...
Gee ... I really feel bad for them /sarcasm
Meanwhile, a lot of people on slashdot are volunteering to help them migrate to Linux. :-)
I think that's a great idea. Once the district comes in contact with some of those vitriolic losers, they'll never look at open source crapware ever again...
I worked at a large corporation and we audited our machines twice a year, reporting every excutable other than the ones we wrote ourselves.