Subj : Re: Lost software license
To   : John Cuccia
From : Rich
Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 05:18 am

From: "Rich" <@>


   An invoice doesn't prove anything more than you were once billed for =
software.  You could have returned it or sold it.  If you can keep the = 
invoice you can keep the license certificate instead and throw out the = 
invoice.  I suspect many businesses discard invoices once paid and at = most 
keep an electronic copy.

   I was expecting something like this.  So, why can't your asset =
database also include information on the licenses for all software, not = just 
Windows, that you have installed on this asset?  If you are putting = on 
additional stickers, why not include the all information you want = handy?

   I've not seen a recent laptop with one.  On the desktop machine they =
were in the same location that Dell and HP put the stickers with their = unique 
ID numbers.

Rich
  "John Cuccia" <jcuccia@bigfoot.com> wrote in message =
news:4rkdctobeu1314inj8r07hq9pdfcm4bj4h@4ax.com...
  On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:00:18 -0800, "Rich" <@> wrote:

  >   In that respect the convenience of customers is best served by =
having no licenses at all, no charge for either software or support, = etc.

  That's nonsense, Rich. Convenience might mean, for example, that an
  invoice for multiple new/upgrade copies of Windows (or multiple new
  PCs) serves as proof of license, so that I don't have to tie
  registration numbers to individual machines.  All companies track
  invoices.  Why should we have to maintain separate files for license
  certificates when the invoice proves that we bought and paid for the
  software?

  >   As for a wedged machine, I have six computers in my office and no =
problem reading stickers on the side or top of any of them.  Maybe by = 
inconvience you mean having to kneel on the floor. =20

  I've seen many, many people bury their computers, leaving only part of
  the front visible.   By inconvenience I mean having to either move
  books, file folders, pictures of kids, purses, coffee cups, plants, or
  whatever else people manage to pile on or against their compters.

  > How do you tag your computers so that you can track them as physical =
assets?

  With a bar code sticker on the fronts of desktops or on the (closed)
  tops of laptops. =20

  Where are the Windows serial number stickers you mentioned located?




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