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From: kpk@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: School Software Libraries
Message-ID: <618@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 09:06:49 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  1 09:06:49 1985
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Keywords: piracy,lawsuit

I teach computer science at a small technical college.  We have an IBM-PC
lab with about 50 PC's.  Recently, school lawyers have become PARANOID about
lawsuits.  It seems that companies have been loosing lawsuits regarding
piracy if they do not actively prevent piracy by their employees.  Simply
having a policy against piracy is not enough -- the courts seem to feel that
the company is responsible for enforcement of copyright laws.

The lab presently has only one piece of software available for student use:
PC-DOS with ALL utilities removed except for a modified version of FORMAT
(modified to prevent creation of a system disk).  This forces students to
buy their own text-editors, compilers, etc.

Does anyone have a solution to this idiocy?