Challenges Persist Over Software Licensing
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Software industry executives gathered at the SoftSummit conference are told to expect struggles over the next few years as they evolve their licensing models to contend with an expanding assortment of emerging market pressures.
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Even as the Big Four push to remove antipiracy software from digital downloads, larger issues remain. Don't expect a DRM-free world anytime soon.
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Travelers on the road from proprietary to open source software won&#39;t be driving on an Interstate. Enterprise open source deployments are still uncommon enough that companies
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There's money to be made in mediating others' software rivalries.
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Open-source collaboration software vendor depends on its partners to compete.
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Software giant battles activation of unauthorized copies of its new Vista OS.
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Go virtual, go nuts Microsoft, of all companies, continues to lead the way with free and loose licensing terms around server virtualization software and multi-core processors.â¦
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It appears software vendors and their customers are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to newfangled licensing techniques.
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InfoWorld - SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- Noting two evolving areas of software licensing, Microsoft is pondering how to license when multiple instances of an application are run on a single computer, but is not eyeing a plan for utility-based computing, in which charges are based on individual usage.
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New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next?
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In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open-source license.
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Linux looms large in software shifts in India. Plus: Version 3 of the GPL gets a long-awaited release.
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Software licensing is entering a period of &quot;dramatic and fundamental change&quot; as publishers aggressively move to subscription models, newly unveiled research has claimed.
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A Forrester Research study finds that corporate users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the license and maintenance costs of enterprise applications.
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Blog: For all its sound and fury, the third version of the General Public License has not had much impact on the industry yet. Very few projects have adopted it. Here's why.
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Blog: Microsoft wants to declare its independence from one of open source's biggest licenses, the GPL.  Here's why it will fail.
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JavaScript development goes to the dogs What you can - and cannot do - with your software is often determined by the code owner's license. From not using open source APIs with closed-source digital rights management (DRM) to being barred from fiddling with Windows source code, we've seen it all.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing