[ale] B$A and Ernie Ball electric guitars

[Marvin Dickens]

Hello everybody!


"Two years ago, the maker of Ernie Ball electric guitars and strings was slapped with a $90,000 fine by the Business Software Alliance for what the company says was unwitting use of eight unlicensed copies of Microsoft Office.

Microsoft then clipped a news story referring to Ernie Ball's run-in with the BSA, an industry association it co-founded, and attached it to a letter to area businesses warning they could face similar fines. The letter also pitched Microsoft software upgrades as a way to eliminate that risk. Ball paid the fine. Then he wiped Windows and Office off his firm's 80 personal computers and switched to ''open-source code'' software programs, which do much of what Microsoft's products do at a fraction of the cost."


Here is the article if you wnat to read it:
 
http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20030227/4902704s.htm


Best


Marvin
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