so you use their software and they can use YOUR IP because YOU gave THEM permission but god forbid you try to pirate THIER IP. then all bets are off and their lawyers will hound you...
i had a friend who was "Being audited" by "Adobe and autodesk" because he had been using a student account being a college student and a family member was running a business and he says "one google ad last year i had put my own name along with that family member". the point of the audit was "to assess if there was any violation of copyright and if they were using only licensed software in their machines" and failing which they would be liable to pay full amount of the software with back payments."
i told the friend to tell them to "fuck off".... that was last year,
I’d love to drop them, but they’re industry standard. Good open source alternatives such as Gimp are somewhat lacking the AI features. Which have most likely been trained illegally!
yeah, this was e&y and also kpmg harassing the poor guy. we wrote a simple letter of please fuck off and i am certain they backed off.
the guy was traumatized to a point he was asking if post HDD format, records of "pirated windows" would remain... oh boy
scummy way of making money.
the problem is, all these proprietary software companies, from tally in accounting to Microsoft with excel/word and adobe for example, they pay the colleges/schools to have their product be used in education. i am talking about india here specifically so the students "learn" that piece of software. that is precisely the idea behind "student discount" or "free for students".
That is what "most" companies do while the really scummy of them, adobe et al then go after these poor souls
i had a friend who was "Being audited" by "Adobe and autodesk" because he had been using a student account being a college student and a family member was running a business and he says "one google ad last year i had put my own name along with that family member". the point of the audit was "to assess if there was any violation of copyright and if they were using only licensed software in their machines" and failing which they would be liable to pay full amount of the software with back payments."
i told the friend to tell them to "fuck off".... that was last year,