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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
Commercial products like DW are a very small part of SCS's business, but the NavalSimEngine is part of both the commercial product and their defense products. The problem is that government agencies or defense contractors might start using "free" PCUs or add-ons to model new platforms instead of going back to SCS for those services.
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The mod doesn't modify as far as we know the navalsimengine.
I'm I correct ?
It only modifies the database (and us government sureley uses a more precise databse anyways) and the interface files.
You know what happens to any corporations that use unlicensed software ?
Ask the BSA (Business Software Alliance). You pay hell (in any civilised country, in the usa and in italy for instance).
So no I don't think that a US firm would use this mod in any official capacity, because then they would be sued brought in court and make to pay very dearly their mistake. For example the BSA goes against those that use non licensed Fonts, and you think they would let somebody use a cracked/moded/non licensed version of a government contrated software ? Be realistic ML.
SCS doesn't want modding not because of the use of said mod in official circles, it doesn't modding because it doesn't want modding pure and simple. There is simply no justification. The only one would be if the released an official add-on but we all know the truth, its never going to happen. Almost 4 years have passed and nothing happened. Those 2 mods were developped not because people wanted to go over SCS back (hell the mods waited 3 years !!! to come to light) but because SCS considers not cost efficient to do an official add-on for us poor simmers. So I ask again, ethics aside where is the harm being done to DW ?