Subj : Re: Lost software license To : Rich From : Geo. Date : Sun Apr 01 2001 11:28 pm From: "Geo." Many places not only don't deliver a paper license, they don't even give you an actual Windows CD, just some stupid restore CD. Geo. "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:3ac80cc4@w3.nls.net... When you sell software you must deliver the license as that is what you are really selling. If you buy software with a license you very likely being cheated into paying for pirated software. In regard to keeping a copy of the license instead of the license itself you defeat the purpose as you can make a copy and sell your originals claiming that you still have the license because you kept a copy. Heck, you could try selling copies of licenses. Dell and HP put the stickers on tower PCs on the side. These contain the numbers you give them when you call for support. I think they may also deliver a license certificate with the same numbers. Rich "John Cuccia" wrote in message news:685fct8c652onncv8dnefvqgn2f5j3b7mu@4ax.com... On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 12:18:27 -0700, "Rich" <@> wrote: > An invoice doesn't prove anything more than you were once billed for software. It can also be used to prove that it was paid for. > You could have returned it or sold it. And kept the MS/OEM paperwork, which is just as much proof of nothingn as you claim an invoice to be. > 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. What do you have against electronic records? It doesn't matter if the invoice copy is paper or a scanned in image. That should be all that is required. > 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? All the stickers contain is the sequential asset ID and the bar code that makes it machine readable. Our asset database will one day include up-to-date software licensing information, including proof-of-purchase, number of licenses, and the internal org that "owns" those licenses. We recently centralized procurement operations, we have a relatively new enterprise agreement with Microsoft that eliminates the need for us to track individual license numbers for your software, and we have a dedicated asset managers, but most smaller companies don't have the resources or the numbers of machines/users to make something like that worthwhile. Until last year, each business unit in my company was responsible for its own purchasing and license tracking; we were all more like smallish companies (couple of hundred users) trying to keep track of stuff and you definitely don't make it convenient or easy. > 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. Where do Dell and HP put their stickers? --- XP Toss HTML Stripper v0.3.5 * Origin: Barktopia Gating Project (1:379/45) .