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Story: IT staff can't be trusted, claim self-appointed software police
Posted by: Doug Collier (Wednesday 4 May 2005, 3:35 PM)
When I worked in PC repair we would regulatory get phone calls from the local BSA wanting to know if we had renewed out licenses. We would patently explain that we had no such software. We then would get anonymous calls asking to buy said software on the cheap - from the same people. Extortion and entrapment in all but name.
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18 Years in the IT business and FAST thinks fit to... Andy
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