[lug] Re: [NCLUG] the BSA truce

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:46:45PM -0700, S. Luke Jones wrote:
>Has anyone else gotten the obnoxious letter from the
>Business Software Alliance declaring a truce? A truce

Yeah, Evelyn got one too...  "We only use properly licensed
free software."  ;-)

The letter basicly says "Go out and buy a bunch of software, and
when our inspectors come by just show them the receipts for the
a butt-load of software you bought (hopefully from the people
who are paying us Monday, like Adobe) and we'll leave you alone."

I bet you they're tracking their success by sales increasees over
the next month...

>I think NCLUG (LUGs everywhere?) should prepare a
>response (I'm thinking of something like "Nuts!"*)
>and, uh, do something with it.  Who could we send a
>press release to?

That's a fantastic idea.  I'm going to copy this to BLUG and the Meta
list.  "Tired of getting threatened with suprise inspections of your
computers?  They suggest you go out and buy their software, we
would like to give you ours."

Sean
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