[SunRescue] [OT] Dealing with the BSA? (Business Software Alliance)

[Mike Hebel]

My house no - in fact they'll have to get a warrant before they can come
into my house and then I only hope and pray they try an armed entry.  "I was
only protecting my family!  Men with guns burst in and I feared for their
safety!" *grin*

The office I work for is another story.  That's were we're getting the
letters.  If I know the Corporate office their instructions will be to bend
over and apply lubricant. *ouch*

I've heard tell that they can get an Ex-parte(?) warrant and come in with US
Marshals but I think that might be M$-FUD.

Whatever they are - they are _not_ Boy Scouts. ;-)

Mike Hebel

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
>>Behalf Of Bill Bradford
>>Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 11:23 AM
>>To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>>Subject: Re: [SunRescue] [OT] Dealing with the BSA?
>>
>>
>>Do you even have to put up with them?  I dont think they have the legal
>>right to come into my house and start poking around on my machines....
>>
>>BIll
>>
>>On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:01:38AM -0600, Mike Hebel wrote:
>>> Has anyone on this list dealt with the BSA?
>>>
>>> We've been getting letters from them concerning the "Truce" in our area
>>> (Chicago-land) until Feb 28th.
>>>
>>> We're pretty much legal on everything but I have to make certain of that
>>> this week.  (I'm running their network scanning software tonight at work
>>> with the router unplugged because I don't trust them.  I
>>personally consider
>>> them Microsoft funded goons with too much intimidation power.  The last
>>> thing I need their software to do is upload some crap info to
>>them that is
>>> incorrect because of the network structure or something.)
>>>
>>> I'm looking for what kind of people I'm dealing with here.
>>>
>>> Are they going to care about Sun software of any type?
>>>
>>> What about network installs that you have enough licenses for?
>>How picky
>>> are they?
>>>
>>> Anybody dealt with them?
>>>
>>> Mike Hebel
>>>
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>>Bill Bradford
>>mrbill at mrbill.net
>>Austin, TX
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