It’s be my guess that some person working for the Air Force was promised or wast trying to get a job with SAIC.
Couldn’t they sue SAIC as well?
This concept is old.
Happend all the time with program packages throughtout the years. Progammers can’t just sell the use but sell the actual item.
The airforce was not selling the package, they were rewriting it for their own use.
no different than any of the other cases on this issue.
There are ways, which take a little more effort when incorporated into the writing of the code, make reverse engineering difficult, if not impossible. This would be a wonderful text book example of why you need to scramble, and encrypt your source code when writing programs for the Government. I suspect, in the future, this will be standard operating procedure when writing any software for the government. Yeah, they screwed this company by not acting in good faith, but in the long run, they will probably not be able to do this again.
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.echoes of INSLAW?
First, you can’t sue the Government without its permission.
Second, Copyrights and Patents aren’t necessarily applicable to the armed services.
Third, did the company want more than a couple million for the rights?