{"id":535,"date":"2012-10-30T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=535"},"modified":"2012-10-30T09:38:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T09:38:25","slug":"unlicensed-software-costs-company-nearly-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Unlicensed software costs company nearly \u00a3100k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/news\/2240169453\/BSA-fines-First-Choice-Facilities-after-licence-shortfall-following-an-MA\">ComputerWeekly.com reports<\/a> that safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined &pound;18,000 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) &#8211; the proprietary software industry&#8217;s licensing police &#8211; for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>First Choice Facilities will now also have to pay an additional &pound;81,000 to buy sufficient software licences to cover the unlicensed Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft and Symantec products they used.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, First Choice Facilities could have avoided all this hassle in the first place in 2 ways &#8211; 1 expensive and 1 cheap. The expensive way is the route down which they&#8217;ve gone; the cheap way would have been to have used <em>only<\/em> free and open source software.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theopensourcerer.com\/\">Alan Lord, the Open Sourcerer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComputerWeekly.com reports that safety specialist First Choice Facilities has been fined &pound;18,000 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) &#8211; the proprietary software industry&#8217;s licensing police &#8211; for unlicensed software following completion of an acquisition. First Choice Facilities will now also have to pay an additional &pound;81,000 to buy sufficient software licences to cover the unlicensed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}