The Bullshit Software Alliance

[mr_jon]

The FACT knobheads came to our place once and my old boss absolutely destroyed them.

Microsoft do a self-assessment type audit on us every couple of years - no big deal.

[Rich B]

The FACT knobheads came to our place once and my old boss absolutely destroyed them.

Singing happy birthday? Arseholes.

[NotoriousREV]

The FACT knobheads came to our place once and my old boss absolutely destroyed them.

Microsoft do a self-assessment type audit on us every couple of years - no big deal.

That's what pisses me off. Every year [vendor] has approached us in January to do the same. This year they didn't, and now the BSA are knocking on the door and I've been approached by a [vendor] Official Partner who just so happen to have a licence management solution.

Well, here's my solution: I'll be ditching as much [vendor] product as possible and I'll be giving that large project that we were talking to [vendor] about to someone else.

[V8Granite]

I was working on a project as a mechanic, it was a £30 million or so contract on our kit alone so once civil, he and transformers etc are acco7nted for its huge money.

On a night shift I had a reminder come up on the main control screen saying our 30day free licence had expired, please purchase a full copy etc.

Our Colleagues had downloaded a dodgy software copy and were using dodgy pass codes

Dave!

[tim]

I know a chap who spent $600,000 on a swimming pool, yet wouldn't pay £2,500 for a piece of software needed to do the actual job. <shrug>

[mr_jon]

The FACT knobheads came to our place once and my old boss absolutely destroyed them.

Microsoft do a self-assessment type audit on us every couple of years - no big deal.

That's what pisses me off. Every year [vendor] has approached us in January to do the same. This year they didn't, and now the BSA are knocking on the door and I've been approached by a [vendor] Official Partner who just so happen to have a licence management solution.

Well, here's my solution: I'll be ditching as much [vendor] product as possible and I'll be giving that large project that we were talking to [vendor] about to someone else.

I meant FAST of course.

No chance an ex-employee has tried to give you an F-you? Easy to do. But I do agree with your forward-going policy Unfortunately we are stuck with the M-vendor for a while yet, though the alternatives are looking increasingly good.

[NotoriousREV]

The FACT knobheads came to our place once and my old boss absolutely destroyed them.

Microsoft do a self-assessment type audit on us every couple of years - no big deal.

That's what pisses me off. Every year [vendor] has approached us in January to do the same. This year they didn't, and now the BSA are knocking on the door and I've been approached by a [vendor] Official Partner who just so happen to have a licence management solution.

Well, here's my solution: I'll be ditching as much [vendor] product as possible and I'll be giving that large project that we were talking to [vendor] about to someone else.

I meant FAST of course.

No chance an ex-employee has tried to give you an F-you? Easy to do. But I do agree with your forward-going policy Unfortunately we are stuck with the M-vendor for a while yet, though the alternatives are looking increasingly good.

Most of our estate is already non-M, even the desktop environment is roughly 50% non-M. We’ve been looking at Azure for some stuff but I’ll just stick it in AWS/GCP.

[unzippy]

so just left him in my room whilst he was midway through quoting some legislation which didn’t apply...

Why did you let him in? Sucker for a man in uniform?

[Beany]

Yes serious question. I've never seen any other reaction to Happy Birthday other than embarrassment / irritation on the behalf of the birthday celebrator, and the imminent arrival of a cake.

This...

That's the point.


That's the whole point.

[JLv3.0]

Well I, for one, am totally and utterly lost on this one.

[Mito Man]

so just left him in my room whilst he was midway through quoting some legislation which didn’t apply...

Why did you let him in? Sucker for a man in uniform?

No, pretty much my whole floor had the doors open at first as we would just go into each other’s room. Although he must have followed a random student in through the main entrance. He let himself in. There was no sucking.

[Maurice]

And what is this fresh madness?

Not sure if serious question, but Happy Birthday is a copyrighted work - so technically you're performing it without consent etc.

Pretty sure it was recently put into public domain because it was a rip off of a public domain tune.

BASS IN THE PLACE...LONDON.

[Beany]

Not that public domain, this public domain.

[Broccers]

I know a chap who spent $600,000 on a swimming pool, yet wouldn't pay £2,500 for a piece of software needed to do the actual job. <shrug>

Theres a reason why they have that swimming pool.

[Jimmy Choo]

I know a chap who spent $600,000 on a swimming pool, yet wouldn't pay £2,500 for a piece of software needed to do the actual job. <shrug>

Theres a reason why they have that swimming pool.

They hate other people but love swimming?

[Broccers]

Wealth spent is a choice after you've acquired it which involves being proper on top of every penny

[Jimmy Choo]

Wealth spent is a choice after you've acquired it which involves being proper on top of every penny

But also the swimming thing, yeah?

[Broccers]

Wealth spent is a choice after you've acquired it which involves being proper on top of every penny

But also the swimming thing, yeah?

Yes the swimming thing too whatever that is

[JLv3.0]

The World According To Broccers

[NotoriousREV]

The World According To Broccers

He should publish that, but obviously not until 2020.