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Story: IT staff can't be trusted, claim self-appointed software police
Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 3 May 2005, 9:06 PM)
FAST would do well to demand from vendors to be completely open and forthcoming about their license terms in easy to understand wordings that are overseeable for a couple of years at least.
Furthermore, the law should introduce full liability for consultants, advisors, VARs, vendors and the like where it concerns license advisements and sells. Once that's done I suspect that their advise will better reflect the reality of today's license terms.
As it is now the PR departments, sales people, account managers, resellers, VAR's, legal departments and what not all tell different stories that are subject to the events of the time they're being told in.
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