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InfoTech: Healthcare administrator pays USD275,000 for using unlicensed copies of software
Health Plans, Inc, a third party administrator of health and benefit plans, has agreed to pay USD275,000 to settle claims made by the Business Software Alliance that it had unlicensed copies of software on its corporate computers.
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The company was found to have unlicensed copies of software from Adobe, Corel, Microsoft, Quark, and Symantec on its systems. In addition to paying the penalty, the company as agreed to delete all unlicensed software, to bring its machines "into compliance" and to maintain stronger software audit procedures.
"Health Plans, Inc. is and has always been committed to ensuring that only legal software is used for operating our business. The audit performed has permitted our organisation to implement processes that will assure that software licensing issues do not resurface," said the Chief Information Officer of the company.
For its part, the BSA says that 20% of software in use in US corporations is unlicensed - but that that pales into insignificance against the 43% globally.
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