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- <text id=90TT2909>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Software
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 57
- Business Notes
- SOFTWARE
- No Payment, No Lipstick
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- <body>
- <p> If a car can be repossessed, why not computer software? The
- Silicon Valley firm Logisticon, which has been locked in a
- dispute with Revlon over a $180,000 bill and licensing rights
- for custom software, decided that the cosmetics company should
- not use what it had not paid for. Without letting Revlon know
- in advance, Logisticon programmers used a telephone connection
- earlier this month to enter Revlon computers and disable the
- disputed software. The message got through. For three days,
- Revlon claims, hundreds of workers sat idle as two warehouses
- were unable to ship as much as $60 million in goods. "Software
- companies have to protect themselves," says Logisticon
- president Don Gallagher. Revlon says it refuses to pay because
- the program has failed to perform as promised. The company sued
- Logisticon last week in California state court for trespassing
- and breach of contract, calling the repossession "a form of
- commercial terrorism."
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- </body>
- </article>
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