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. By far their most prevalent method for detecting illegal copies is via the internal auditing function among the Fortune 500. Forty-five percent include computer system inventories as part of the internal auditors'jobs and win run programs to check hard disk contents for software that matches the inventory for which the user is registered.