David Brown wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:26:06AM -0700, Doug LaRue wrote:
"The director of the libraries I've working on, has been told that
installing Linux will result in BSA audit. We did, nothing happened,
obviously, but all the other libraries are still using Windows servers."
What is the thinking behind this? Are they so convinced that their OS is
wonderful that a Linux-only installation _must_ have some windows machines
somewhere?
Yes. And 99% of the time--they're right.
For example: I'm pretty sure all yearbooks now transmit digitally for
publication. I'm pretty sure that software will be Windows only.
The BSA expects that the yearbook club will probably not be willing to
go through the bureaucracy required to get that Windows machine (in
spite of the fact that most Linux conversions *do* still have a
Microsoft site license--just a much smaller one). Of course, they will
decide that they don't want to shell out the $300 to buy it either.
Aaaand, instant BSA bait. Oops.
The BSA expects that *some* idiot will be stupid enough to pull
something like this. Or that they will find someone's porn cache during
the audit. Or ...
-a
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