Nuance in Hot Water over Unpaid Licenses

Ironic for a company that spends an inordinate amount of time and energy hassling legitimate users of their software with phone home licensing tools that they seem unable to pay license fees themselves........

SpeechTech Magazine is reporting a $30 Million lawsuit against Nuance here

The Vianix MASC codec is embedded in many of Nuance's products including:

...Enterprise Express, Enterprise Workstation, EXSpeech, iChart, iChart Managed Services, Powerscribe, and Powerscribe Workstation SDK...

That's a big chunk of business. The original suit was filed on June 2, 2008
The courthouse news service posted this on Jun 4 and the full suit can be seen here
It makes for interesting reading

"Enterprise Express in 3,000 organizations"

and in Nuance's own press release installed in more than 4,000 healthcare institutions and in June 2007 they issued a release stating that iChart was in use by more than 285,000 unique health care providers and more than 14,000 transcriptionists in 511 sites. That's a lot of sites and users of the technology. $30 million seems on the low side.....