The Geek Squad provides system repair, data salvaging, and installation services in each of the Best Buy retail outlets and, for an additional significant fee, a 911 service that travels to customer homes to perform repairs on site. This is the first lawsuit Winternals has ever initiated, and we did not approach the decision lightly.īest Buy acquired the Geek Squad several years ago and has grown the unit to a size of approximately 12,000 employees that analysts estimate will generate over a billion dollars of revenue this year alone. What the press coverage to date might not have made clear is what Geek Squad and Best Buy did prior to approaching Winternals in October 2005 about a license to our software, what they continued to do after terminating licensing discussions in February 2006, and why we felt we had no alternative but to protect our software through the legal system. In Federal court against Geek Squad and Best Buy for illegal use of the Administrator’s Pak. , the company I co-founded with Bryce Cogswell in 1996, This post I’m taking a break from my standard technical postings to discuss a disturbing discovery regarding a large corporation’s unauthorized software usage. ![]() ![]() ![]() First published on TechNet on Apr 21, 2006
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