Chris Beggy on Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:00:12 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] BSA offering a grace period


William Shank <wshank@mbcnet.com> writes:

> infoworld did a series of articles on this in their gripe line column. from
> what they are saying it's empty threats. did a MS salesperson contact you
> shortly afterwards? that's the game. send the threat, then MS rides in like
> the good guy, "helping you become compliant"
>

You've got it.  The MS followup letter came yesterday: "PROTECT
YOUR BUSINESS FROM BSA PENALTIES."

> my company is SERIOUSLY looking at Linux for file serving AND as a desktop
> workstation. and it's directly because of this kind of crap - and M$'s new
> license scheme too.  
>

I hope they listen to you :-)

Chris

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