I have spent more than three years trying to convince them to buy an OS for each machine but have failed. This has never happened before. Many small companies in the past have had software which was not legit but it has never been difficult to convince them to buy it. Most of the excuses this company have given have revolved around cost and that they will do it when they can afford it. They can afford it. They could have afforded it instead of taking senior staff and business contacts to the Rugby World Cup Final or one of the many other events they have attended. They could have afforded it instead of the major office upgrade they did last year. They could have afforded it instead of the business they bought out last year. They could have afforded it instead of building and opening two new stores last year. They could have afforded it instead of buying senior staff new (not too cheap) cars last year.
Well..... you get the point. In the past when I have tried to get a company to do the honourable thing they have taken no more than six month to comply. Right now they have too many systems which they could not function without which use Office so Open Office etc is not an option. Chrissy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leigh Wanstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 8:57 AM Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Follow Up To Last Post About Software > Hi Chrissy, > > I think lots of people on this mailing list gave you a good advice. I just > want to add an extra point. Why can't ask the company to use open source > software, i.e. Linux, Apache, Open Office? > > Just my 2 cents > > Regards > Leigh > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ChrissyR > Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:20 PM > To: OffTopic DUG > Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Follow Up To Last Post About Software > > > How do you convince a company that they should > have legitimately purchased software when they > realise that they can install one copy of the application > on all 30 PCs? > > One solution is to report them to the seller of the > application and get them sued so they learn the hard > way but that seems a little hash. Reason should work > but I have, so far, failed to do this. > > Chrissy. > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > > > _______________________________________________ > Offtopic mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic > _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
