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Quoting Brad Rogers <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:31:53 +0000 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Rob,Because it's a business presumably, it's not as if it's a home userOr a charity, as is the one I used to be involved with. If caught breaking EULAs in this way, they'd lose their charitable status, and never be able to regain it.
I wasn't aware of that, it's interesting to know.
As you go on to say, advocating such behaviour would do nobody any favours.
Yep, from what I understand, the BSA etc do make examples of companies who run unlicenced software. I believe one of my previous employers was fined in the region of £100,000 for having too many copies of Adobe and Microsoft applications installed.
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