Army pirated $180m in software

[unnamedny]

US Army Caught Pirating $180M in Software - YouTube


And managed to save 73% of what taxpayers would have paid for it. Cheers?

 

[sfbloodbrother]

I thought they used Linux.

 

[Codegerm]

It figures, the government saying, "Do as we say, not as we do."

 

[psionandy]

If they do it 2 more times... they should have their internet access revoked

 

[Unforgiven]

Anyone get the feeling that the software was probably available on the consumer market for $19.99:vroam:

 

[big_z]

Anyone get the feeling that the software was probably available on the consumer market for $19.99:vroam:

Having contracted for the Army before, I can say that they don't have the money for that $20 piece of software that actually works but do have the money for that $5m custom software boondoggle that only works about half the time.

No, that's not a problem, it's a feature.

 

[Rukbat]

They could have licensed MySQL for a lot less. ("Keep track of" - isn't that what a database is for?)