On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:02 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Sytze de Boer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> My users must update their payroll system every year (in March) for >>> new statutory requirements. >>> They pay an annual maintenance fee for this. >>> In the past, I knew there were some free-loaders who did not pay but >>> still downloaded the update from the web site >>> Last year, I caught 8 of them because I put a simple new tool in place. >>> If anyone performed the update, it sent me an email. >>> I told the end-user I was doing so as part of the Update blurb/licence >>> agreement (which no-one reads) >> ----------------------------------------------- >> >> I'd put in a security "load" of the update that demanded a key to install. >> >> You get they key when I receive your payment. >> >> Funny how people want their stuff to work all the time. > > > Funny too how the cheap MFs who want something for nothing don't want > you to audit their usage, either. Still, looking at this from the other > side, we would bitch if M$ was monitoring our usage. For me, it's a > non-issue because I'm doing nothing wrong. But, privacy advocates would > raise hell. I for one don't care if the cops are checking up on me or > if cameras in public places are recording everything going on out there. > Doesn't bother me in the slighest because it's not interfering with my > life. However, several others would be totally against such thing > (...and this has played out already in the political/country theater). ---------------------------------------
Nothing funny here Michael. Your customer could easily say "You are going past the line monitoring what I do at my company." Having a bug bubble up and report to you? Like M$ does today they ask for your allowance of it going. They just don't send it off. They also post to the user what that data is if they want to see it. "For me, it's a > non-issue because I'm doing nothing wrong. But, privacy advocates would > raise hell." I beg to differ. You are probably wrong in a court of law even if your license states that you are doing this. If your license fails to state that you are you are really incorrect in your status of right and wrong. Can you guarantee that this data is secure that your collecting? Do you expose customer data in a bug that percolates up to your repository? If so could a worker break your code working just to send this data up? I mean if they disconnected a network cable would your app attempt to report what was happening? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Web and Windows Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
