Money for old code?

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Is your organisation on top of its software licensing? Check, double check, and set aside a few million pounds, just in case you're wrong, warn Fieldfisher's Sam Jardine and Liam Corrigan

In a recent UK legal ruling, the court ruled that drinks giant Diageo was liable to SAP for ‘indirect' licensing of software, in a claim worth almost £55m. For legal junkies, the official judgem...

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