The school director did not go to the world with Microsoft
Despite the fact that Microsoft has not filed a lawsuit against the director of a provincial school, Alexander Ponosov is being tried for the unlawful use of the copyright objects of this corporation on a large scale. In 266 thousand rubles was estimated by the loss of Microsoft from installing an unlicensed version of Windows OS on 12 computers of the school in Sepych village. The accused, who denies his guilt, faces up to 5 years in prison.
The process still does not turn in the direction of Ponosov - we recall, he argued that computers were already purchased with Windows. According to Regnum , it turned out that the company that packaged the system units did not install software before selling computers. But this company was not a supplier of cars to the school - it was a certain private entrepreneur.
Who installed the "OSes", still could not figure out - as well as to know when exactly this happened. “There is no doubt about counterfeit programs, but the exact date of their installation cannot be named,” stated Sergey Artyomov, an expert from Perm State Technical University.
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But the court session was remarkable: Alexey Potapov, a Microsoft representative, confirming the position of his employer, suggested Alexander Ponosov to conclude a settlement agreement without paying material compensation, but the school principal refused. If he had agreed, the case would have been closed, but this did not happen, since Alexander Ponosov does not consider himself guilty.
“At first, when a criminal case was just launched, I partially admitted my guilt. I was shocked, I decided that pirated software was installed when the computers were already in school. But then it turned out that the programs were installed much earlier, I could not know that they were unlicensed, ”the Russian newspaper reports.
In addition, it became known about another mysterious circumstance - one of the hard drives, "involved" in the case, disappeared. All 12, they were kept in school, while considered to be "confiscated by the prosecutor's office." After the court session on January 29, one of them was missed - the defendant himself announced this.
The process still does not turn in the direction of Ponosov - we recall, he argued that computers were already purchased with Windows. According to Regnum , it turned out that the company that packaged the system units did not install software before selling computers. But this company was not a supplier of cars to the school - it was a certain private entrepreneur.
Who installed the "OSes", still could not figure out - as well as to know when exactly this happened. “There is no doubt about counterfeit programs, but the exact date of their installation cannot be named,” stated Sergey Artyomov, an expert from Perm State Technical University.
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But the court session was remarkable: Alexey Potapov, a Microsoft representative, confirming the position of his employer, suggested Alexander Ponosov to conclude a settlement agreement without paying material compensation, but the school principal refused. If he had agreed, the case would have been closed, but this did not happen, since Alexander Ponosov does not consider himself guilty.
“At first, when a criminal case was just launched, I partially admitted my guilt. I was shocked, I decided that pirated software was installed when the computers were already in school. But then it turned out that the programs were installed much earlier, I could not know that they were unlicensed, ”the Russian newspaper reports.
In addition, it became known about another mysterious circumstance - one of the hard drives, "involved" in the case, disappeared. All 12, they were kept in school, while considered to be "confiscated by the prosecutor's office." After the court session on January 29, one of them was missed - the defendant himself announced this.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/3235/
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