[Sheflug] Re: Piracy Blitz on Councils

[Richard <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Ian
 
Ian Wright wrote:

>Even if they are, they offloaded all the IT stuff onto ECS and so I'll bet
>they wriggle out of any problems! With the total number of PCs on desks
>throughout the council, I certainly wouldn't like the job of auditing all
>the software on each machine - when I was there, there was no central record
>even of what machines existed let alone software and, since then,
>departments have been given a lot more autonomy in buying such equipment.

I remembered the following after I sent then previous one this
morning.

A few years back I met one of the Managing Directors of a local
company who supplied pre-installed PCs to the council.  He said to me
that as far as he could see the contractors he employed to build and
install PCs weren't even slightly bothered about not using licenced
software.  He thought that council PCs were not licenced at all.

>p.s. Richard, did you get my previous email about my little networking
>problems etc. - if not, I'll repost it to the group.
 
Yes, I saw it and I saw Alex give a really good reply.

-- 
Richard
Sheffield UK

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