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In case anyone was also wondering, that's the Swiss Franc, and not a Chinese currency, and converts to about 30,800 US dollars. > As he was affiliated with a u
by powertower 11y ago
In case anyone was also wondering, that's the Swiss Franc, and not a Chinese currency, and converts to about 30,800 US dollars.
> As he was affiliated with a university, CERN passed all costs to them who, in turn, passed them on to the student.
At first I thought that the software vendor was being unjustifiable. But if you think about it, the student was not just part of CERN, he was also (using the s/w) to work on a CERN project - so it does kind of all fall back into CERN's lap. Yet CERN passed the cost to the university, which passed the fine to the student?
- masklinn 11y ago> Yet they passed the cost to the university, which passed the fine to the student? CERN had a license pool available which the student didn't use, and the student most likely broke CERN's rules wrt licensed software. Why would CERN pay for a student's breach of their rules?
- powertower 11y agoThe way I look at it is that the licensing agreement, and penalty clauses, is totally between CERN and the software vendor, and not the particular student. Did the student sign some type of a indemnification agreement with CERN?
- danielweber 11y ago+1. I don't support or defend the student's actions one bit, but the 30K was negotiated between CERN and the vendor. Fire him with a "not eligible for rehire note" in his HR file: fine. Make him the subject of orientation studies: great. Trying to get him to pay CERN's fine: sketchy.
- sbuk 11y agoThe student chose to use unlicensed software. Not CERN.
- brador 11y agoNot just unlicensed, possibly from a warez site, possibly bringing trojans and keyloggers into the network. I'd suggest CERN run a deep scan and begin backing up data and formatting systems. If they think 30k is bad, imagine the bitcoin bill for a cryptlocker key to the entire CERN dataset.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoOne would assume that they have an adequate back up system in place such that a cryptolocker type attack would be simply negated.