Six firms cough for unlicensed software
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BSA hands out the fines Three US financial services firms have paid large fines for using unlicensed software in their offices.â¦
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Letter Can collective database licensing cure this tragedy of the commons?
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World's largest software maker is pursuing companies who register variations of its key brands.
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InfoWorld - Two companies, a door manufacturer and a dental laboratory network, have agreed to pay tens of thousands of dollars to settle Business Software Alliance (BSA) claims that they had unlicensed software on their computers.
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Purchasing a permanent license to its pioneering OS is a shrewd move.
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Lax enforcement of intellectual property laws hurts business and investment, group charges.
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A piracy ring that has cost Symantec tens of millions of dollars in revenue is one reason the company is pushing all of its customers to sign up for a new online licensing program to verify the authenticity of their software.
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Corporate licences make for happy software vendors
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Software maker considering online and perhaps ad-funded versions of the low-end productivity software.
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Software giant battles activation of unauthorized copies of its new Vista OS.
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A stock brokerage firm and two mortgage companies have agree to pay a total of more than $420,000 to&#160;settle claims that they had unlicensed software&#160;on their computers, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced Tuesday.
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Selling a &#36;1 million server software requires more finesse than selling a Crock-Pot, right? Maybe not. Some of the biggest names in technology, like Cisco Systems, Microsoft, BEA Systems and PeopleSoft, now use a tactic traditionally reserved for unwitting consumers after 6 p.m.: the cold call.
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The chances of a user being sued for intellectual property (IP) infringement related to software usage are slim, industry observers say. But that may change, as some companies hoard patents for the express purpose of using them to extract money from sellers and users of software.
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Even as such open source software developers as Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) and OpenOffice.org wax enthusiastic concerning enterprise deployments of their respective Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) Office alternatives, industry analysts are urging caution.
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The fragmented  software business is growing up.
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Company says software maker has infringed seven patents, does not say which products use the technology.
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Payless ShoeSource and Burlington Coat Factory have paid a combined total of nearly $425,000 to software watchdog the Business Software Alliance for unlicensed software use.