[Ubuntu-be] De Standaard: "companies don't know if they have all needed software licenses"

[Jan Claeys]

<http://www.standaard.be/Artikel/Detail.aspx?artikelId=B311752060404>

Loose translation:

"""
BRUSSELS - About 40% of Belgian SMBs (small & medium businesses) have no
distinct software-policy.  Even though 90% thinks there software
licenses are all right, only 60% can tell what's actually needed to be
sure.

That's the results of a market research by marketing students at the
"Karel de Grote Hogeschool" (Antwerp), conducted on request of the BSA,
an association of software manufacturers.  The results also show that
half of the companies have inadequate knowledge about the dangers of
illegal software usage; 40% doesn't know the company manager is legally
responsible. 

Besides about 70% SMBs consider software "expensive" or "too expensive".
More than 70% of the companies consider sanctions against illegal
software use appropriate.
"""


Now, if they would use Ubuntu, software might be cheaper (at least in
some cases), and they won't risk running illegal software
anymore...  ;-)

PS: thanks to the BSA for their help promoting free software...  :-P


-- 
Jan Claeys