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Writing Assignment Israel Yemer
Give Information As the manager of the Reprographics Department, you have been asked by two staff engineers for a copy of the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. This is an expensive licensed software program that your employees use. The engineers want it for home use. You know it is against the law to do this, and you understand why. Software companies would go out of business if they sold a program and it was copied by many others. Your Adobe software contract allowed you to install the updated version of Photoshop on one server and use it with up to five employees in this networked office. You would be breaking the contract and the law to let the program be copied. You wouldn’t mind showing people how your department uses it, but you can’t let the program be copied. Note that you do not supervisor or have authority over the engineers, so you must empathize with them to get them to understand why you cannot grant the request.
Date: November 9, 2010 To: Robert Barnes <robert.barnes@ecc.com> Jose Lopez <jose.lopez@ecc.com> From: Israel Yemer <Israel.yemer00@ecc.com> Subject: Adobe Photoshop Dear Mr. Barnes and Mr. Lopez: Adobe Photoshop has been one of the great software packages we are privileged to use in our company. I believe this professional standard image editing software has been a key to our success. In addition to this excellent software, the creativity of our engineers and other employees helped us to do extremely well in our job; thus, it would not be hard to think why people want this software for home use. Our Adobe software contract allows us to install the updated version of Photoshop on one server and use it only with up to five employees on our office network. Therefore, it is unlawful for us to copy the software for home use. In order for us to continue to benefit from this excellent software, we must oblige the contract and remain loyal to the law. I appreciate your understanding and would be happy to show you how the software works. Sincerely, Israel Yemer