#Copy protection?
>> On the surface, that "no upgrades" scheme sounds good – except I'd believe
that
>> most software is pirated without the purchaser's permission. In other
words,
>> someone rips it off from the office computer. They didn't pay for it, but
they
>> want it at home.
Then perhaps businesses, would get serious about enforcing no piracy policies.
The company I worked for got burned by an employee introduced virus. Now, to
insert a disk from home, is a termination offense. If you have some software
you need to run, they will buy a copy, before they will let you bring anything
from home. (If you have a piece of software that you have written, they will
put you through a lot of agony before they let you run it. Their preferred
method is to have you bring source code, and recompile on their machines.)
Similarly, they will terminate you, if you take anything, programs or files,
off the computer without express permission. Since we have healthy security,
(all items are inspected or xrayed coming onto site, and inspected when
leaving, they instantly question any disks coming or going.
While this isn't practical for small officed, password protection for computer
access is.
I've seen more than one company look the other way about employees taking
software home. The rationale at one company was that the employees would then
learn the program better, and thus make themselves more valuable to the
company.
-Alex…. Not a Dongle kinda guy….