[dba-Tech] Licensing - just an FYI

My take on this is very simple. If you don't have a license for all the
software that might involve me, I deem you a rip-off artist who is equally
unlikely to pay me for services and software rendered. Steal from me, steal
from anyone, it's all the same. You're a thief. End of story.

Arthur

On 11/27/07, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> That is an interesting article John.
>
> Clients having or installing duplicated or pirated software happens more
> often then not. I for one try to convince them that it would be better to
> actually purchase the software or as in about a third of the cases assist
> them in installing open-source substitutes (I have also tried to insist
> that
> the company should in fact contribute to their new open-source app...
> quality and reliability does not come for free). This happens in about
> half
> the cases where I have come in after the fact (after initial
> installation).
>
> My son-in-law convinced his employer to migrate from MS to Debian Linux
> servers which saved the company an estimated $200,000 but he also
> convinced
> them to contribute $15,000 to Debian. They are now using Linux as their
> core
> for the last 2 years.
>
> I would like to hear how other techs deal with these issues when working
> on
> a client's site.
>
> Jim
>