Survive a Software Audit

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Published on 2011-11-14T18:15:27Z Indexed on 2011/11/15 9:55 UTC
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I received a letter from Autodesk asking for a "License Assessment". I understand it as a software audit. They plan to do it remotely.

The thing is, I'm a freelancer, I don't use any Software Asset Mangment software, and I just recently swap out my hard drive for a new one, and did a complete clean install, and then I received this request from Autodesk.

There is almost nothing on my hard drive now.

What do software auditors do when they experience this?

Will they (are they allowed) to contact my clients (that info is all over the web..) to get information since they found nothing here?

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