[ale] Laughing myself sick!

[Ben Coleman]

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:35:49 -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:

>Maybe all of us who run Linux exclusively should pretend to be an 
>'unhappy employee' and report ourselves.  Be real nice to the BSA when 
>they show up, but waste as much of their time as possible.

Anyone on here actually undergone a BSA audit?  My understanding is
that those sent out are likely to be clueless flunkies who only know
enough to stick a floppy in the machine and run an audit program off of
it.  They're likely to be really confused by a Linux machine that won't
run Windows programs.  I believe I've read of cases where they've just
done a power-off reset on *nix machines when they couldn't figure out
how to run the audit program, resulting in lost data.  

Alternatively, it they decide that they've found even a single license
violation, they'll insist that you pay for the cost of the audit.  

Ben
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