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"Brian" <bsullivanremovedSPAM@jr.com> wrote:
>"Ogden Johnson III" <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote
>> "Brian" <bsullivanremovedSPAM@jr.com> wrote:
>>>Our company has about 25 Optiplexes that have the Office XP / Acrobat
>>>Bundle. I know that the copy of Office on each machine is an OEM version,
>>>but I cannot find anywhere (packaging, EULA) that states the copy of Acrobat
>>>is OEM. Anyone have any prior experience with this?????
>> The companies I have worked for have always assumed that, in such
>> a situation, the bundled software carries the same EULA terms as
>> the program it was bundled into - typically that it is tied to
>> the computer(s) that the company purchased.
>>
>> Your company, of course, is free to do whatever it feels best in
>> the situation. When was the last time the Adobe Kounterfeit Kops
>> stormed your company's bastions?
>That's not exactly my point. I know I could do that, but when one is
>dealing with government oversight, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense,
>does it?
The last sentence wasn't as facetious as it might have seemed on
first glance; and you may have broken the code. Yes, I have
worked for and am working for government contractors - small
ones. And yes, I have heard of the Government - DoD in my case -
auditing *their own* computers to verify that they only contain
valid software covered by license. I have heard /rumors/ of
other contractors similarly being audited; but have no personal
experience of it and have no friends/acquaintances in the beltway
bandit world that have experienced it at their company either.
Which is not to say that it hasn't been done. Just that I don't
know that it has.
As I said in the beginning, the companies I have worked for would
have treated that Acrobat in accordance with the terms of the
Office XP it came bundled with, absent any EULA on the Acrobat.
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