US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says contractor consented

Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by Tomte on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:32AM (#12957790)

"We bought 38 licenses for $x and asked the company to remove the lock, so they clearly allowed us to install it 100.000 times" doesn't sound really convincing.

If it was really agreed that the software would be installed on so many computers, I'd simply expect them to issue 100.000 licenses.

Why 38, not 1?

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Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by Desustorm on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @08:45AM (#12957882)

I guess that would be number of developers/machines they were using during development

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Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by croon on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:51AM (#12959004)

Sure, that answers the question of how many licenses they have and why. But it doesn't answer the question of what rationale could be used to think that 38 licenses would be good for 100k installs.

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