__/ [ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Monday 04 June 2007 09:29 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> Sadly, Microsoft plays these games outside the United States as well.
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world
>> | thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself
>> | a government department. How else to see its latest scheme whereby,
>> | if you ignore its questions, it will report you to its private
>> | paid-for policemen at the Business Software Alliance?
>> `----
>
>> http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39285719,00.htm
>
>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | According to ComputerWorld, Vole has sent out a series of letters
>> | threatening legal action using its agents the Business
>> | Software Alliance (BSA).
>> |
>> | Ram Dhaliwal, Microsoft's licensing programs manager in the
>> | UK said the move was to "spark off the engagement" with its customers.
>> `----
>
> Y'know what might be amusing?
> If someone from a 100% linux shop phones the BSA and said that every
> machine in their company was using software not licensed to microsoft (in
> order to trigger a visit), then install a single windows machine in a
> cupboard somewhere, install a few games on it (all perfectly legal)...
>
> And just wind them up when they get there by showing them each and every
> machine in the company (saving the windows one til last of course)
>
> Oh, and when they first knock on the door, look shifty and initially refuse
> them entry just to add a little spin to it.
> :)
>
> Has no-one done anything like that yet?
> If enough people did it, they'd waste enough of the BSA's time to make
> visits almost pointless.
Jim Moore told us a story about the BSA wasting /his/ time? He put Linux on
all the boxes he sells, IIRC.
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