Why Winternals Sued Best Buy

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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


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"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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