We get to everybody eventually.' At this point I grew extremely annoyed because he's treating me like a criminal and demanding $6,000 for software where no employee agreed to it. It isn't a matter of if you get audited,but when. We just do this with all of our customers. After the audit was done I asked what triggered the audit, and he casually said, 'Oh, nothing. To answer Damjo's question, part of the EULA is that we give Autodesk the right to audit our network. Is there a difference between 'use' (the term they use repeatedly) and 'installed'? The EULA states that the student version cannot be used for commercial purposes, which it hasn't. Looking at all the files, it appears that it hasn't ran since even before he left.

After the ex-employee left, stewardship of the machine went to somebody else who does't use AutoCAD. Actually, when it was installed, it wasn't part of the company but we brought he computer in later. We are experiencing the same thing, an ex-employee installed a student license. What are your thoughts on this? Has anybody else had experience of the Autodesk auditors? I cannot see anywhere that it cannot be installed on a computer that is joined to a domain or a company asset.

My understanding of the EULA is that the software is restricted by adding a banner to all of the output from the software. They now want us to upgrade all of these products to the full versions. The company doing the audit is telling us that we are not allowed to install student versions of AutoCAD on a company asset. They do not use the software for commercial use. These guys are genuine students and have downloaded and installed the student version by themselves. They have come back to us now and said that they have discovered (quite correctly) that some of our computers have the student version of AutoCAD installed. We have complied with the company doing the audit by running some network scan software. We are currently under-going a license audit for AutoDesk products.

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