>>The situation is changing gradually, due to campaigns by BSA. Companies are starting to get scared.
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>Hilmar,
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>BSA. Bolivia Software Administration? Just curious.
Business Software Alliance.
www.bsa.org. It represents the interests of major software companies, including Microsoft, Adobe, and others.
>Also, I had no idea that there even was an illegal software problem within corporations. For personal use? Sure, but I have never worked for a company here that didn't have registered copies of all their software.
Here in Bolivia, there definitely is. The situation is probably similar in most third-world countries.
A few years ago, companies would typically have no licenses at all, or have a single license but install on multiple machines.
Some 3-4 years ago, BSA started with major campaigns, aided by the relevant police department. 1-2 years earlier, the relevant laws were firmly established in theory. So now, companies are starting to get licenses for Windows, Office, etc. - or investigate Linux, etc.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
