[withdavidli]

> US Navy began testing Bitmanagement’s 3D virtual reality application ‘BS Contact Geo’. The Navy subsequently installed the software across its network, assuming that it had permission to do so.

This turned out to be a crucial misunderstanding. Bitmanagement said it never authorized this type of use and when it discovered that the Navy had installed the software on hundreds of thousands of computers, the company took legal action.

This part of the article made me think it was an error on Navy part during the testing phase. The posted article does link to a 2016 article alleging that the Navy disabled tracking of the software deployment as well.

>Navy allegedly disabled the software that is supposed to track on how many computers the software is being used. This violation of the terms of service prevents the software vendor from stopping the unauthorized copying.

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-government-sued-for-software-pi...