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The US Government will pay 50 millions of dollars for the use of pirated software

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For years, the US Army has pirated copies of the software Logistics which are used to protect soldiers and transport in critical missions.

The software maker, the  Apptricity, accused the military of willful copyright infringement and sued her for $224.543.420,80 in runaway licenses operating unlicensed copies of the software for nearly a decade.

 

According to the company, the government had illegally installed the σε 93 servers και περίπου 9000 συσκευές πέραν των 500 αδειών που καταβλήθηκαν αρχικά. Τα τέλη έκδοσης αδειών για το λογισμικό είναι $ 1.35 per server and $5.000 per device which translates to $224 million in lost revenue.

The company paraof the software filed a lawsuit against the government in the US Court of Federal Claims for copyright infringement and ignoring the company's financial claims. After a settlement, the Obama administration agreed to pay $50 million to settle the dispute.

 

 

The US government has not yet commented on the settlement, and Apptricity expects that their co-operation with the government and the military will continue professionally, even after this fiasco.

Source: Torrentfreak

 

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