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On 17 Aug 2002 03:11:21 -0700, dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote:

Robert

>> If you go to your [large] company's accountat and say 
>> "there you go,
>> I've spent $1000 on software" and they say, "well, where 
>> is it?" and
>> you say "it's a file on my PC" what do you think they're 
>> going to say
>> to that?
>
>Please don't invent problems where none exist. This is
>almost never a problem in practice.

This problem certainly does exist, possibly not in your world, but
this situation has certainly arisen where I've worked.