Re: [school-discuss] Cost comparisons for Linux vs. Windows

[William Abernathy <william@inch.com>]

Cameron Miller wrote:
> Jan Wilson wrote:
> 
>> * Leon Brooks <leon@brooks.fdns.net> [020814 23:02]:
>>
>>> It's worth noting that the BSA has the right to *perform* audits 
>>> themselves, IIRC they don't have the right to force *you* to do the 
>>> audit or charge *you* for doing it. They're paid enough already 
>>> anyway. So if they mail you, write back to say `OK, when did you want 
>>> to send your people in to do the audit?' and see what the response is.
>>>
>>
>> I've heard there's a gotcha there too, though.  If they find even ONE
>> piece of unlicensed software, YOU have to pay for the audit.  Which
>> could be a lot more than you would pay your own people to perform one.
>>
>> The only really decent answer is to get MS-free ASAP.
> 
> 
> Since when did a private entity gain the right to search the premesis 
> without first obtaining a court orderd search warrant?

I imagine it was that small piece of stickum on the package that says "By 
breaking this seal, you agree that the Constitution is null and void, Microsoft 
owns your eternal soul, and, oh yeah, yo momma is uggily"

--W