Software vendors likened to mean traffic cops

Doug Woodburn
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As software audit activity rises, some publishers are using ‘questionable' means to catch out customers, Forrester claims

Vendors are being increasingly militant when it comes to software audits A report has likened some software vendors to ‘revenue-generating’ traffic cops as their methods of catching out end users...

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