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: "Cheryl L. Smeed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:10:31 -0400
We have zero tolerance for violation of licensing laws and have
educated our members accordingly. Those who chose to violate those
laws have left our user group.
Cheryl
On Aug 20, 2009, at 7:43 PM, John Brandt wrote:
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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