[SunRescue] [OT] Dealing with the BSA?

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Why let them in in the first place?  They have no police powers in this
country(yet).  I can hardly wait until/if I get to deal with them.  I've
been wanting to print out the classic ASCII-art middle finger on our new
plotter lately....

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Ed Mitchell (ed<-at->the7thbeer.com)
Finger for PGP public key
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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, 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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