Reread the article. It wasn't Microsoft that showed up on Ball's doorstep. It was the BSA -- and he immediately leaps to the conclusion that it's Microsoft.
If the unlicensed software remaining on those 6 systems were all Microsoft products, there isn't much point in blaming the other members of the BSA for the way he was treated.
If the unlicensed software remaining on those 6 systems were all Microsoft products, there isn't much point in blaming the other members of the BSA for the way he was treated.
"The real motivation came when his company was busted in 2000 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) for running pirated copies of software from Adobe Systems, Autodesk, FileMaker and Microsoft."
209 posted on 08/21/2003 9:01:24 PM PDT by Bush2000