[NTLUG:Discuss] Armed Marshalls with BSA without warning

[Tom Adelstein]

ken at lt.com wrote:
> Tom Adelstein wrote:
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>> ken at lt.com wrote:
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>>> Tom Adelstein wrote:
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>>>> I use Ernie Ball guitar strings and have for a decade(s) so this 
>>>> story hit home. It's great for people who dislike Microsoft. It's 
>>>> one of the ugliest stories I've ever read. But, that's because I had 
>>>> to deal with BSA's predecessor - Software Publishers' Association. 
>>>> After more than a year of lawyers, etc. we were found to be 100% 
>>>> clean. Why? Use used Linux on all but three machines and we were 
>>>> careful with the three.
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>>> How could there be any questions if all you ran was Linux?  That 
>>> should have been cleared up in minutes, not years.
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>> We had three NT 4.0 Workstations.
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> Really curious now... if all three were kept clean, why the lawyers? 
> What was the SPA going after?
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> ...Ken
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Ken, I think we've reached the limit on this thread. So, no more after 
this, please. An ex-employee told them we were involved in piracy 
strictly to harrass us. They didn't believe me when I told them we were 
an ISV and a Linux shop.

They wanted to verify the ex-employee's story. After the audit, they 
billed me for $41,500.

I disagreed and it took a year of bickering and doing "discovery" before 
they went away. They wanted us to pay their legal fees.

If you have an interest in the subject, you can report yourself and go 
through an audit. I shouldn't have mentioned it. It's a very sore topic.