Users fed up over software licensing, pricing tactics
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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: Is version 3 of the GNU General Public License asking for too much?
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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Microsoft is applying for a patent for an operating system that starts out crippled.  You must pay to do things like take the throttle off network speed, disk access, install drivers, install software, and more.  Trust me, I rarely even visit Groklaw, even if this is my second consecutive blog entry with a link to a Groklaw article. My VarLinux.org readers posted the article, A Brave New Modular World, and I had to share it.
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One of the most important recent events in the world of free software has been the release of version 3 of the GNU GPL.  There were fierce arguments about its utility while it was being drawn up, and although the rhetoric has abated somewhat, there is still a big question mark over its eventual success.  Some evidence suggests that GPLv3 uptake is coming along nicely, while other reports indicate a reluctance to adopt it (but note also Matt Asay's neat reconciliation of these contradictory messages).  To see what's likely to happen in the long term, it's useful to look back at the past history of licence adoption.
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As the proprietary world continues to devour the open-source world, one has to wonder if anyone will be left to shake up the old world.
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Company had challenged employees to move to the alternative OS.
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A software program that blocks ads is a two-edged sword: It stops annoyances for consumers, but it threatens to break down the business model that helps pay for Web content.
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Gasoline and milk aren&#39;t the only things that cost more these days. The cost of keeping your antivirus software current has been rising, also.
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Open source is changing the game by making software free.  About time.
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Businesses don&#39;t have to dump Windows to test drive free or low-price applications whose use may improve the bottom line. Sometimes the big software vendors act like their customers are locked into the proprietary products they sell.
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This user has been known to install software that crashes workstations and delete shared network directories -- and he's been blasted by IT support people. But this pilot fish wants to change that.
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TechWeb - Controversy swirls around the revised General Public License, and Microsoft keeps the heat on.
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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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How far is too far when it comes to the freedom of software? Plus: Palm slipping, Windows sliding.
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Blog: Customers are angry over new, large ads in AT&T/Yahoo DSL service
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I have an observation I'd like to disclose about the Open Source community: we tend to leap into all kinds of things before we have all the facts and/or information necessary to make intelligent decisions. We criticize other communities, laugh at things like directory services from the two major NOS players, talk about all our great applications, etc. we hang on to old notions about a what makes Linux tick. Sorry, but that model Eric doesn't fit any more. The community natter appears to come mostly from people who lack deep technical skills and knowledge of enterprises.