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In article <1992Aug3.152921.15203@informix.com> robertw@informix.com (Robert Weinberg) writes:
>Anyone out there know what, if any, measures have been taken at sites where  
>there have been SDA raids, or other reasons for concern about copying?

Here at Lockheed, Austin Division there has not to my knowlege been
and SDA raid. However, we live in an age of shrinking defense
budgets and rising standards of ethics for high-profile
contractors.

A year or two ago, all the Macs in my area were shut down because
we could not *prove* what software was licensed to what machines.
We are talking about Mac Pluses, running the original bundled
MacWrite, as well as some other purchased software (various WPs,
etc.) In fact, I believe that some legitimately licensed software
was thrown away merely because the original program disks could not
be found.

At the time this happened, only 1 Mac in the area had a hard drive
(a Syquest removable) for security reasons. At that time, each Mac-
using employee kept his own set of system/program/data disks for
the software he used regularly. Most of the software was
legitimately licensed to be used on the machine it was used on.

Understand that I in ABSOLUTELY NO WAY speak for my employer or
anyone else. However, I suspect that there was also some software
being passed from employee to employee that MAY not have been fully
licensed.

Since that time, removable hard drives have been purchased for all
Macs. Licensed software has been installed on the hard drive at
each machine. An internally serial-numbered floppy copy of each
program is physically located with each machine. The originals are
locked away somewhere.

And do you know what? If a program wasn't on the hard drive of the
machine someone was using, it found itself on the machine that
someone WAS using. In other words, it is IMPOSSIBLE to create an
environment that precludes illegal copying of software and still
lets people do their work.

Furthermore, most license agreements provide the right to use the
software on ANY machine, as long as it is being used on at most ONE
machine at a time. Therefore, merely having a copy of software on
your disk does not make you in violation of the license agreement.
My copy of Excell 3.0 came with a coupon that I could carry around
to prove I was legally using the software.

Actually, the one thing that eased the software legitimacy crunch
more than anything was a corporate licensing agreement with
Microsoft, which basically licensed EVERY Mac Lockheed owns to run
certain applications (Word, etc.)

-------------- DISCLAIMER FOLLOWS ----------------

Nothing in the above in any way reflects the official views or
policies of Lockheed Austin Division, or any other Lockheed company
or subsidiary. Nothing in the above should be construed as an
implication that any Lockheed official or employee knowingly or
intentionally violated any software license agreement or copyright
policy. Lockheed holds to the highest standards of corporate ethics
and expects its employees to do likewise. Illegal copying of
software is not tolerated. Any employee engaged in illegal copying
of software or using unlicensed software in any Lockheed owned
machine is subject to termination.

Translation: We are good guys. The government will cancel our
    contract if we cheat, so we don't.

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Jim Melton, novice guru
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