In the area of policy education, both groups approach software copying in similar ways. Both use formal classes, memos, and new employee or student orientation for educational purposes as seen in Figure 1. The main difference lies in how frequently each technique is used. The other important difference between the educational approach used by the two groups is that colleges tend to use only one - or at the most two of the techniques to inform and remind. The corporate world, on the other hand, uses numerous methods and reminds users periodically over time rather than simply stating the rules once at a new employee orientation.
Corporations send repeated newsletters, memos, and issue reminders in software classes.
However, many university respondents expressed the opinion that faculty have no ethics when it comes to software copying and that they are the main offenders at their schools, far surpassing students. Little effort is made to check for illegal copies. Universities are, however, more cautious when dealing with students. Fifteen percent of them rely solely on the honor system among students. The other universities use lab monitors or faculty to check students'disks for illegal copies or to watch students as they use the labs.