More Evil Users

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

Our contract states that our product is sold, installed and supported on a per license basis.

Server = $1000 / license
Client = $4000 / license
Assist = $2000 / license

Your contract states that you have 1 server program, 1 client program and 6 assistant programs (Total: $17,000 w/out our 15% discount)

So why, pray tell, do you have 10 client and 15 assistant programs? (Total: $71,000)

Can we say Violation of Contract? I knew you could!!!

Comments

[jecook]

Whoopsie...

I can hear the excuse now: "But we don't use them all at once!" Riiiiight...

[wyrdrune.livejournal.com]

So why, pray tell, do you have 10 client and 15 assistant programs?

[mode=luser]
But your software didn't stop us doing it, so it's really your fault!
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[hisamishness.livejournal.com]

do you get a bigger bonus by reporting them to management or BSA?

(yeah, yeah - BSA = annoying cretins, but still a potential tool to use)

[jecook]

Possibly both... ::cackle::

I like this incident as well...

[jon787.livejournal.com]

At my last job as a junior sysadmin I was in charge of all sorts of software installation around the place I worked. My boss did all the licensing stuff. Around the last few weeks I worked there I did start getting suspicious about some of the licenses we had for some software. This came about because I would ask for CD keys and then they would magically appear and I found a computer with the same CD key for a product that I got from a website for my personal computer.

I really do wonder how much illegal software I may or may not have installed. Does the "I trusted my boss" defence hold up in court for something like this?

[jecook]

They would not go after you, they'd go after him. You were just following orders...

[mfeltes83.livejournal.com]

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[jecook]

Funny, I don't remember installing that package... hmmm.....

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

What's sad is that I was really hoping that would be a valid website.

[jon787.livejournal.com]

We could make it one

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

exactly!!!

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

i wish!!!

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm usually one for keeping the BSA out of it. They're only in it for the big name software companies and to try to scare the living crap out of the little guy who doesn't know any better about how software piracy really works. I love the campaign they had signs for going around my office at one point - this kid with a shirt that said "My daddy went to jail for software piracy and all I got was this t-shirt". Yeah, that might happen if you're a distributor of cracked stuff or supplying a large corporation with major goods and high-level management knows or should know about it. Not very likely if it's some random dude or even (as happened in my office) an entire department setting up a copy lab with training computers for movies and software and not even being very discreet about it.

In this case, I'd say just go after the breach of contract. Odds are they'll settle out of court with a few nasty letters from the lawyers since it's clear they're in the wrong.