[Cialug] Re: w/o MS license, UI folk "have to pirate"?!

["Dave Hala" <dave@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if this is a result of Microsofts latest efforts to boost sales.
They have distributed an anti-piracy "package" to vendors. It includes nasty
form letters about piracy, and software "audit" letters that can be
distributed by vendors to those customers they suspect have illegal copies
of Microsoft products.  A bunch of scare tactics to try get some quick and
easy sales.

----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Joe Anderson" <deejoe@iastate.edu>
To: <aafugit@aafugit.org>
Cc: <woos@news.dmreg.com>; <lug@cialug.org>; <linux-users@icarus.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: [Cialug] w/o MS license, UI folk "have to pirate"?!


>
>
>    IOWA CITY
>    U of I nears agreement on software licenses
>
>   "University of Iowa officials are working out a license agreement with
>    Microsoft to avoid a possible lawsuit over students and employees
>    pirating software from campus computers."
>
> [...]
>
>   "The license provides students
>    with legal computer upgrades so they don't have to pirate software."
>
> http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/15792594.html
>
>    * * *
>
> That's funny.  Someohow I manage to run *lots* of computers without any
> license agreement with Microsoft AND without pirating a thing.  Manage
> hundreds of email messages a day, surf the net and serve web pages, shop
> online, compose documents, write Perl scripts, . . .
>
> Must not have run that "have to pirate" thing by their Tech Reporter,
Steven
> S. Woo, who from what I had gathered from reports of his interactions with
> CIALUG folk is more clueful about the existence of Open Source, freely
> redistributable alternatives than to let a howler like that pass.
>
> --Joe
>
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