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To SteveD:

I am truly discouraged by your turn from offering counterpoints to simple slams.

Nobody said that the fireman should be arrested. That was clarified with the City Council's vote to send the case to the Rhode Island State Police where they found that there were no state criminal violations. It certainly was not my idea to have the City Council to approve that resolution. So, you must be saying that the City Council and the Mayor are idiots too because they were the ones who went to the State Police. Did all of these people "bark up the wrong tree?"

All of the above "looking into the issue" points to the fact that Purvis Systems missed the point that the software was not Lt. Dunleavy's to sell. Purvis should have known this because they are an experienced government contractor. Now that Purvis is reselling this software in the form of maintenance contracts back to the City of Warwick for tens of thousands of dollars per year taxpayers have the right to ask why.

Based on the letters from the City of Warwick during the grant period and the lack of an Invention Report there is real substance to all of this. The District of Columbia is buying this software. This means that Congress itself is buying it. The City of Warwick should inform Congress that it should not be buying the software because it is literally buying it from itself. The City of Warwick should, at the very least, be collecting royalties on the work done by not just Lt. Dunleavy but all of the city employees that helped him with the specifications, the provision of the hardware to test and implement the system, and the testing and validation of the same.

It is one thing to write software. It is something entirely different to get a large city to install it, test it, accept it, and get funded from the federal government for all the effort, not just the programmmer's work. Computer programs are much more than "writing the code."

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