[ale] Laughing myself sick!

Adrin haswes at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 12 15:07:18 EDT 2002


Sounds like a good Government job to me.. 
Go to some office click click try to find some pics of employees
then leave. Have uncle Sam pay for the trip, lunch, etc....

Adrin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Coleman [mailto:oloryn at benshome.net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:21 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Laughing myself sick!
> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:35:49 -0400, Irv Mullins wrote:
> 
> >Maybe all of us who run Linux exclusively should pretend to be an 
> >'unhappy employee' and report ourselves.  Be real nice to the BSA when 
> >they show up, but waste as much of their time as possible.
> 
> Anyone on here actually undergone a BSA audit?  My understanding is
> that those sent out are likely to be clueless flunkies who only know
> enough to stick a floppy in the machine and run an audit program off of
> it.  They're likely to be really confused by a Linux machine that won't
> run Windows programs.  I believe I've read of cases where they've just
> done a power-off reset on *nix machines when they couldn't figure out
> how to run the audit program, resulting in lost data.  
> 
> Alternatively, it they decide that they've found even a single license
> violation, they'll insist that you pay for the cost of the audit.  
> 
> Ben
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> Amateur Radio NJ8J                   | best, in equal misery for all.
> 
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