GmbH wrote in the court filing, “The government knew or should have known that it was required to obtain a license for copying Bitmanagement software onto each of the devices that had Bitmanagement software installed. The government nonetheless failed to obtain such licenses.”, claiming that the existing licenses it obtained allowed them to make additional copies of the software without requiring additional payment.
The software company claimed the per-copy license was worth $1,067.76, but the Navy’s expert witness, David Kennedy, a Certified Public Accountant for Pricewaterhouse Coopers determined that the price per license amounts to $200.Kennedy’s testimony was found to be reliable, the court filing says, adding “Kennedy testified he looked ‘at the Navy’s side of the equation, and what they had agreed to previously, and what their use ultimately was of the software, and the limited amount of use.
The Court of Federal Claims determined that Kennedy’s conclusion was found “to be fair and reasonable,” and
Uh… “GmbH” is the German equivalent of LLP, Inc., or Corp. So, if your article had been talking about Apple Inc., you would have been referring to them as “Inc.” for the rest of article. Please do better, Gizmodo.
and if it was anyone else but a U.S. govt agency, the court would have issued MILLIONS against them, not a pissy 150k. Perhaps when U.S. companies try sue a business in rest of the world, we should consider this a precedent for compensation values knockdowns
The irony.
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