The audit tool is really designed to tell you what software programs you have installed on you computers. In addition, you've also got to go to your file cabinet and make sure you have licenses.

If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.

The Business Software Alliance is offering business and organizations a special opportunity to ensure that all of their software is fully licensed.

We really are about trying to get business to simply add software management to their corporate checklist, ... Many companies are used to paying their taxes and obeying EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] laws. We're saying, 'Make sure you've got a system in place to manage software.'

What Apple Computers are not doing (when) using the Apple mark is selling software, delivery systems, or anything of the like. They are selling music. And that is in violation of the agreement.

It could be used to reduce the software costs for desktop or mobile computers while keeping staff-related costs in check.