Re: AUGD: Are user group leaders being ethical?
Re: AUGD: Are user group leaders being ethical?
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Are user group leaders being ethical?
- From: John Brandt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:43:01 -0500
I've tended to notice over the years that a surprising number of people
don't know the (many of) rules regarding piracy, licensing, rights
management, copyrights & trademarks, and etc, or pay full attention to them.
Does everyone know (and follow) laws pertaining to antipiracy and rights
management for software, fonts, art & photos, etc? I have subscribed to some
UG listservs (not this one) through which others regularly ask (and receive)
illegal copies of licensed fonts and other material.
Might not be a bad idea to use not only this forum, but user group meetings
in general, to provide at least some related overviews.
John
>
> On Aug 20, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Deborah Shadovitz wrote:
>
>> It really irks me when people take a MUG position for the title or
>> power. Or get it and abuse it.
>
> I am concerned that this thread is building on hearsay and possibly
> incomplete information. In short, it seems to be turning into a bit of
> a witch hunt.
>
> There are only two people who know what occurred during the support
> session in question, and we have only heard part of that third hand
> from one side of it. Are we all so sure that it isn't a
> misunderstanding? It is an older version of Office that is still
> perfectly serviceable. If "accused" is no longer using that version,
> has uninstalled it from his own equipment and did not use that license
> as the basis of an upgrade, why couldn't he sell it to someone else
> cheap? "Some initials" does not sound sinister to me in and of itself.
> If the initials are something that concerned the person receiving the
> software, did he question it? Do we know for certain that the
> installer isn't in the process of notifying Microsoft of the transfer?
> Do we know that the failure to transfer the disk isn't simply an
> oversight? Have any of these concerns been brought up with the
> "accused" at all?
>
> Let's not get all crazed here.
>
>
>
> Paul Richards
> Ambassador
> Syracuse Macintosh Users Group
> Syracuse, NY, USA
> http://www.iSMUG.com
>
>
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