Which of the following is the BEST way to prevent software license violations?
A.
Implementing a corporate policy on copyright infringements and software use.
B.
Requiring that all PCs be diskless workstations.
C.
Installing metering software on the LAN so applications can be accessed through the metered
software.
D.
Regularly scanning used PCs to ensure that unauthorized copies of software have not been loaded
on the PC.
Explanation:
Since its impossible to control all the efforts of the users to install software without the proper
licenses in their PC´s (Specially downloaded from the Internet), the best way to prevent licenses
violations is through regular audit to every single user PC to see what’s the installed programs are
and what’s the nature of them (Shareware, freeware, licensed). We cant use LAN monitoring
software because not all the applications are network enabled, also, there is usually a policy about
software installation, but the users do not rely on them many times. It also a very nice practice to
punish the users making software license violations.