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US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M

Posted by timothy on from the where's-the-bsa-when-you-need-'em? dept.

Rambo Tribble writes "The BBC reports that the U. S. government has agreed to pay software maker Apptricity $50 million to settle claims that the U.S. Army pirated thousands of copies of the firm's provisioning software. The report indicates 500 licensed copies were sold, but it came to light an army official had mentioned that 'thousands' of devices were running the software." $50 million in tax money could have paid for a whole lot of open source software development, instead.

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  1. Re:Open Source Troll much? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I only say this because there is an obvious 'zomg go open source' vibe to the post...

    +1 and this is why I stopped frequenting /. as often as I used to.
    The Apply fanoboi's, MS-haters and oper-source zealots coupled with obvious product placement stories and instances of posspoor editor-oversight (same story appearing multiple tiems over a few weeks) means I now mostly use main-stream news/media - and filter out the crap there myself.