[Gllug] Thorny question

[Xander D Harkness]

If you knew that the company that you work for has in excess of 35
servers running unlicenced copies of Windows would you report them?

These servers have have 200+ people logging into them.

Therefore the costs as as follows:

One W2k licence is £1,000
One client authentication licence is £50

Cost of server licences = 35 x 1000 = 35,000
Cost of authentication 	= 200 x 50  = 10,000
			     Total  = 45,000

The dilemmas are multiple.

I do not like to provide another penny to the criminal corporation.  

If someone is willing to ignore that a company openly acts in a criminal
manner and continues to support that company then they should fully pay
the price for that.  All licence fees should be paid fully.

The company are in breach of licences.

It may persuade them to move more services to Linux (they already have
some servers).

I would be interested in hearing views and arguments.

Cheers
Xander





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