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From: lhl on 23 Nov 2009 10:03
It would be interesting to see what the court will say in this case.

I think SAS is using a strange argument, the mis-use of their learning
edition. IMHO, that is not a strong point to stop the entire business
of a company. I.e. if I am a bank and build a model to credit score
clients with SAS/LE, then it would be in violation of the license
agreement. The bank would have to pay some kind of fine, but could
they prevent the bank selling credit to customers...




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From: Jeremy Miles on 23 Nov 2009 15:00
2009/11/23 lhl <longhowlam(a)gmail.com>:
> It would be interesting to see what the court will say in this case.
>
> I think SAS is using a strange argument, the mis-use of their learning
> edition. IMHO, that is not a strong point to stop the entire business
> of a company. I.e. if I am a bank and build a model to credit score
> clients with SAS/LE, then it would be in violation of the license
> agreement. The bank would have to pay some kind of fine, but could
> they prevent the bank selling credit to customers...
>
>

I was surprised by that argument too. I know that SPSS has had
similar issues - I know of a couple of cases where a university is has
been using the X pound (where X has 2 or 3 digits) version and
violating the license conditions. SPSS find out, and the university
says sorry, and pays the additional Y pound (where Y has 4 digits) fee
and carries on. I don't see what other damage SAS can claim apart
from that loss, which is pretty small. Like everyone else (I believe)
who has discusssed this, I Am Not A Lawyer, so I might be talking
nonsense.


Jeremy






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