Fishing License

[Gene Heskett]

Dave Ihnat wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:22:43AM +0100, Andy Green wrote:
>   
>> <<Pointer to Microsoft attempted intimidation of AWC elided>>
>> ...
>>  "Thank you for your offer to send your purchase records to me," she 
>> wrote, "however our Software Asset Management (SAM) program is the only 
>> unbiased way to create an accurate baseline and resolve this matter."
>>     
>
> At which point you stop E-Mail and put everything in writing via registered
> mail, through the lawyers.  And you tell Microsoft,
>
>   "Since you feel it's necessary for AWC to place itself under your
>   Software Asset Management program, AWC will be happy to comply.
>   However, this is a program for your benefit, not ours; and complying
>   will necessarily require involvement from our staff.  All AWC staffers
>   who are required to assist you in any way will be billed at the rate
>   of $250/hour.  We require a prepayment retainer pool be paid in the
>   amount of $50,000 to an escrow service, and when this pool is reduced
>   by 90% all efforts must cease until it is replenished.  Thank you."
> --
> 	Dave Ihnat
> 	dihnat at dminet.com
>
>   
Love it Dave, now how can one actually make it stick, when all M$ will 
do is walk in the door with federal marshals in tow, having already 
obtained a search warrant?  That, BTW, has occurred before.

What I'd druther see is a reciprocal DOA bounty on these jerks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene