The Business Software Alliance is offering business and organizations a special opportunity to ensure that all of their software is fully licensed.
Bob Kruger
Criminal prosecution and penalties provide deterrence in a way that civil judgments cannot
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We really are about trying to get business to simply add software management to their corporate checklist,.. Many companies are used to paying their taxes and obeying EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] laws. We're saying, 'Make sure you've got a system in place to manage software.'
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The audit tool is really designed to tell you what software programs you have installed on you computers. In addition, you've also got to go to your file cabinet and make sure you have licenses.
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One of the reasons this happens is that people don't fully appreciate that what they're doing could have serious consequences,.. They think they won't get caught, or if they do get caught, it will be like a traffic ticket.
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If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software,.. Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.
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Many companies are under pressure to keep their costs down, but they don't steal their office furniture off the truck,.. One of the reasons people steal software is that it's easy to do.
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Our members tell us [the truces] have been successful. In the early campaigns we found that the calls to our hotlines exceeded our expectations. There are a lot of businesses out there that simply aren't paying attention to whether they have enough licenses. And [it's hard] to get them to add software management to their corporate program. These campaigns result in companies going to resellers and others to legalize [the software] programs [they're] running].
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