Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...

A lifetime license for Microsoft Office now only costs $150. Microsoft 365 costs you more every year, and that’s not even considering the periodic price hikes. It already jumped to $99.99/year. If you ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

The shift from per-CPU software licenses to per-user and subscription models is well under way, according to industry analysts, but a new generation of dual-core processors, which has been a driver of ...

LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SmartFlow Compliance Solutions and Connor Consulting Corp today inked a strategic partnership to provide software vendors with license ...

Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end user licence rules. As ...

In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss 'Silver Mgmt. Grp. v. AdvisorEngine', in which the Delaware Chancery Court dealt with a software license dispute that concerned ...