RE: Why Winternals Sued Best Buy

[Blanchard_Michael () emc com]

 I sure hope that Sysinternals doesn't pull their freeware items now due to
this.  If they do I'll never EVER visit another BestBuy store.


Michael P. Blanchard 
Antivirus / Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE
Office of Information Security & Risk Management 
EMC ² Corporation 
4400 Computer Dr. 
Westboro, MA 01580 


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 1:47 PM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Why Winternals Sued Best Buy

Mark Russinovich writes over on the SysInternals Blog:

[snip]

This post I'm taking a break from my standard technical postings to discuss
a disturbing discovery regarding a large corporation's unauthorized software
usage. By now many of you have heard via Slashdot, arstechnica, Digg, or
your local newspaper that Winternals Software, the company I co-founded with
Bryce Cogswell in 1996, filed suit in Federal court against Geek Squad and
Best Buy for illegal use of the Administrator's Pak.

What the press coverage to date might not have made clear is what Geek Squad
and Best Buy did prior to approaching Winternals in October 2005 about a
license to our software, what they continued to do after terminating
licensing discussions in February 2006, and why we felt we had no
alternative but to protect our software through the legal system. This is
the first lawsuit Winternals has ever initiated, and we did not approach the
decision lightly.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/blog/2006/04/why-winternals-sued-best-buy.html

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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