Partner Program comments??

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:36:41 -0800

just make sure you dont give any clients any illegal
copies of xp and dont run any at your shop or home, as a
partner you will be help legally responsible as any pro
is for any "funny xp copies" dont let any clients
talking you into installing from anything but original xp
cds with licenses.
>-----Original Message-----
>All:
>
>I'm a very small, part-time consultant, and I've
considered signing up
>as a "registered" partner with Microsoft and investing
in the Action
>Pack subscription that provides NFR copies of the OS and
other tools
>for internal testing/review etc.
>
>I was about to sign up until I read one part of the
license agreement
>that, to be honest, scared me. In essence, it says that
you have to
>agree to let Microsoft, on 48 hours notice, audit your
history and
>usage of licenses and that you preemptively agree to
change whatever
>auditing practices you use if they don't like them.
>
>So here's where I don't understand/get nervous. I don't
understand what
>Microsoft would come in and be "auditing." I don't plan
to start
>pirating software, I just want the tools to be able to
continue testing
>and "self-training" myself to continue the consulting
side-business I
>do have. But I don't know what the trigger is that would
cause
>Microsoft's black helicopters to swoop down on me. This
isn't my
>primary job - I have a regular full-time job as a
developer, but I'd
>like at some point to branch out more aggressively.
>
>Am I being too paranoid? The $299 "Action Pack"
subscription sounds
>like an ideal way for me to be able to set up my own
test environments,
>as I surely don't have the $$$ to buy the full products,
and I don't
>mind reselling MS stuff as part of the process.
>
>I'd appreciate feedback. I'm a believer in "if it sounds
too good to be
>true, it probably is," but if anyone has experience in
this area I'd be
>appreciative.
>
>-David
>
>Please reply to group - email used in this message is
old and
>long-since dead.
>
>.
>

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