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Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by mcbits on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @10:45AM (#12958919)
If the lawsuit actually ends up costing billions or hundreds of millions, they could have funded an open VR project on a scale larger than all of Ubuntu instead.
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Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by tener on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:59PM (#12960411)
I doubt their plan was to get sued.
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Re:US Navy denies it pirated 550K copies of software, says c... by mcbits on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:37PM (#12960853)
No, but they were probably planning (originally) to license the software. Maybe not at the full $1,000 retail or for 550,000+ computers... I wonder how the software would compare to the commercial offering if they had hired 100 independent contractors at $150k to develop it in the open.

Incidentally, it looks like development was funded in part by the German government, but I can't find anything to indicate how much. http://www.bitmanagement.com/en/press/2013/bsstudio

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