Bleeding obvious
"who obviously doesn't feel that suing the military will make it harder to sell to other defence forces."
Well given the choice between giving it away for free and probably going bust or suing them, it was a bit of a no brainier.
The US army has been forced to pay out $50 million (£30.6m) for copyright infringement after admitting it installed software on thousands of devices without forking out for it. Texas-based Apptricity produces logistics software which the military uses to manage the movement of troops, transport and other supplies across the …
They've hidden them. "enter your comment" and "add an icon" are effectively tabs within the comment page.
I don't think suing the US military would be that hard, especially considering $50M would be chump change to their budget. You'd just have to keep an eye on the PR angle, release a statement along the lines of
"we are honored* to be supporting our troops with our work; unfortunately the military financial offices have not compensated us for our software and with costs mounting we took the difficult decision to initiate legal action."
*Spelling deliberately mangled in honour of our friends across the pond
I think I understand from snopes.com that patriots, such as cafe and restaurant owners, are expected to support the troops by letting them use services without charging, and are liable to be abused by those troops or by their own neighbours for behaving any different, in a series of incidents. Or, if you really want to send somebody to hell, spread a rumour that they once refused a serviceman service.
Also, cops, donuts.
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Odd how the comments here are pro the software company getting the money they deserve yet when a few days ago it was MS that were in the news as some guys had been arrested for counterfeiting the comments were along the lines of they don't deserve it etc. etc. Double standards or different commentards?