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toqer

11-26-2007, 10:55 PM

Yah I feel no sympathy for them. I read/commented on these articles on slashdot this morning.

Having worked many years doing IT support for large and small companies I can tell you this. I would much rather work for a company that takes an active interest in properly licensing their software than one that doesn't. Why?

Of my clients, the ones that would tell me "Just use your copy/key" whenever they needed an OS reinstall were the same ones that would try to barter down my rate, use cheap no name parts, and always had the attitude they should get something for nothing, including my services. Like when the POS printer they bought on ebay doesn't work and I spend 4 hours driving to their office 400 miles away, 2 hours troubleshooting it. "Well you didn't make it work so why should I pay you?" Don't mechanics get paid for looking under the hood? Anyways.

The clients that actually took an active interest in keeping their software licensing legal were always more open to reliable hardware. They didn't care if it cost a little extra so long as I guaranteed their purchases would stay running. I would set these types of clients up with a Dell Business account, and anytime anything broke Dell would just crossship us a new machine. I'd have to do a backup first of course, but the machine would arrive with all our apps pre-installed. (Dell will image a machine with your corporate apps if you order enough)

Anyways, getting sidetracked here...

The point i'm trying to make is people that pirate software are already *******s for pirating. They're even bigger *******s to work for.


	Our DJ Talk - DJ Help and Resources Chat! > DJ Talk > Our DJ Talk Archives > BSA, software giants target little guys PDA BSA, software giants target little guys DougF 11-26-2007, 09:40 PM http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/22242 SoftJock Rick 11-26-2007, 10:19 PM About time! toqer 11-26-2007, 10:55 PM Yah I feel no sympathy for them. I read/commented on these articles on slashdot this morning. Having worked many years doing IT support for large and small companies I can tell you this. I would much rather work for a company that takes an active interest in properly licensing their software than one that doesn't. Why? Of my clients, the ones that would tell me "Just use your copy/key" whenever they needed an OS reinstall were the same ones that would try to barter down my rate, use cheap no name parts, and always had the attitude they should get something for nothing, including my services. Like when the POS printer they bought on ebay doesn't work and I spend 4 hours driving to their office 400 miles away, 2 hours troubleshooting it. "Well you didn't make it work so why should I pay you?" Don't mechanics get paid for looking under the hood? Anyways. The clients that actually took an active interest in keeping their software licensing legal were always more open to reliable hardware. They didn't care if it cost a little extra so long as I guaranteed their purchases would stay running. I would set these types of clients up with a Dell Business account, and anytime anything broke Dell would just crossship us a new machine. I'd have to do a backup first of course, but the machine would arrive with all our apps pre-installed. (Dell will image a machine with your corporate apps if you order enough) Anyways, getting sidetracked here... The point i'm trying to make is people that pirate software are already *****s for pirating. They're even bigger *****s to work for. DjDennis 11-28-2007, 02:34 PM just use Open Source or freeware then you have no worries SoftJock Rick 11-28-2007, 03:03 PM just use Open Source or freeware then you have no worries And no support... You get what you pay for :sqwink: DjDennis 12-04-2007, 03:42 PM very true but all the guys that know how open source works can get away with it... plus how do they know whats legal on every system on the planet ? especially ones that never go online lol