ouch I can't stop thinking now about how much cost gets imposed on the economy by habits like this established in higher education - I built my original business with very few formally qualified people who included a large proportion of the most experienced and professionally qualified individuals including several with multinational boardroom careers in F500s. we didn't have the culture to tolerate games like holding up a floating licence (of which licence a lot of critical software used) and we weren't the generation raised with computers by a few distant, but hearing this both makes perfect sense that it might be prevalent and simultaneously is thoroughly unnerving me about how strongly I might react on encountering the same if my present venture gets going.