[OS X TeX] MacTeX-2008 Status

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Wed Sep 3 22:44:07 EDT 2008


On Wednesday, September 03, 2008, at 02:14PM, "Thomas Bohn" <thomas at bohnomat.de 
 > wrote:
> On 3 Sep 2008, at 22:21, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> Using p2p software is a major violation of security policies at
>> work, so bittorrent wasn't an option.
>
> I don't think that this policy has anything to do with security but
> with the fact that P2P software can be used for downloading
> copyrighted materials with no licence.

Not so.  In our case, the policy statement is basically a summary of  
this page, excluding the "Prosecution" bullet:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/ST05-007.html

-- 
Adam
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