Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!cd
From: cd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Clarence K. Din)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Software Protection
Message-ID: <19641@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 4 Feb 88 01:06:41 GMT
References: <1141@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: cd@bu-cs.bu.edu (Clarence K. Din)
Followup-To: comp.edu
Organization: Boston Univ.
Lines: 35

In article <1141@sjuvax.UUCP> lyle@sjuvax.UUCP (Wayne J. Lyle) writes:
>
>   Has anyone else ever encountered this situation?

  Sure.  It happens all the time at BU.

>If so, what
>kind of measures were taken to correct the situation?

  As it stands, nothing.  Copying software is so rampant here that
nothing CAN BE DONE about it.  We have several rooms with IBM PC's
and the majority of their use is in copying software.

>In this
>case it was outside software, but what if they are copying the
>universities software?

  I work as a consultant for BU's Academic Computing Center.  We allow
the copying of "public domain" software, but there isn't really anything
we could do if a user wants to make a "backup copy for his/her own
private use," etc.

>What do you do with teachers who promote
>software pirating?

 There are other things a big school like BU worries about.


---------------------------------------------------------------
//////////////////                           \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
                    E-Mail: cd@bu-cs.bu.edu
                       Boston University
                     Computer Science Dept.
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\                           //////////////////
---------------------------------------------------------------