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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
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Date: 24 Jun 91 14:49:06 GMT
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In article <56971@nigel.ee.udel.edu> johnston@minnie.me.udel.edu (Bill Johnston) writes:
>Fred buys SPAudit and a few weeks later everybody gets a memo 
>from Fred's boss announcing that from now on the "approved" 
>software list will be enforced;  "flagrant offenders" like Nancy 
>(who didn't even know what was in her Public folder) get a list 
>of the illicit software that was found on her machine which BELONGS 
>to XYZ, Inc.... along with a stern warning not to let it happen again.

Bill, you picked a benevolent "Fred".  I had one person tell me
that his "Fred" actually broke into his office at night and REMOVED
software not on the corporate "approved" list.  This wasn't pirated
stuff, but freeware.

Which isn't to say *I* hate this SPAudit thing; I applaud any company's
efforts at reducing software piracy.  I just hope it doesn't get used for
computer fascism (fat chance :-().
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner