The importance of paying the vendor

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

from: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,71554-0.html?tw=wn_technology_3

Giant Robot Imprisons Parked Cars

The robot that parks cars at the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, New
Jersey, trapped hundreds of its wards last week for several days. But
it wasn't the technology car owners had to curse, it was the terms of
a software license.

The garage is owned by the city; the software, by Robotic Parking of
Clearwater, Florida.

In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police
escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before
the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city
didn't understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent
the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property
rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure
work.

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-JP
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