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DevTECH Industries To Start Multi-billion $ Class Action Against
Software Development Firms.
AFP - Software legal representative firm DevTECH industries has
today announced a multi billion dollar class action that it will file with
the US supreme court.
One of the nations biggest ever actions, the lawsuit targets well over
15000 software development businesses and its customers with regards to
copyright infringement. DevTECH is acting on behalf of a range of
customers that develop open source tools such as SSL, which is used
extensively in today's software.
A DevTECH representative stated that this action represents legal
history in the making, since the infringements are so wide spread.
DevTECH's CEO, Tom Kanealy, was quoted as saying "Our customers are fed up
with having their technology openly used without correct copyright
acknowledgement. Previously it would have been impossible to try and
legally pursue each individual infringement, although this opportunity
with DevTECH now opens the way for a group of development companies to be
targeted.
"This Lawsuit will target some of the world's biggest software
companies, including Microsoft, Novell and Sun Microsystems"
Estimates are that damages claims will exceed the 8-10 billion dollar
mark. For companies that may think they are affected by this lawsuit,
there is a special website that has been setup in order to deal with
issues prior to going to court. The address is
www.DevTECH.com\Cprght\Cplist.html
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