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ICANN attacks 'fat and happy' IPv4 users
News To become IPv6 compatible, businesses need to buy higher-end routers with licences, to cope with the traffic. Spend a bit of money on licences and software and we could have an IPv6 world in a matter of minutes.
[May 9, 2008, 13:16]
Open source comes of age
News The concept remains contentious, not only in the business world, but among developers, many of whom prefer more permissive licences such as the BSD or MIT licences — neither of which supports copyleft.
[March 13, 2006, 17:10]
Microsoft targets defectors with discounts
News The market research firm estimates that one-third of Microsoft customers refused to sign up for Licensing 6, while another third "bought upgrades on part of their licences", Park said. The slow start-up for is intended to let Microsoft prepare the...
[November 27, 2002, 7:46]
Seizing opportunities to go open source
News Saying that the company will save money on software licences by switching to open-source software, which will still allow the employees to get their work done, keeps the focus on the cost difference. You assign the five Microsoft Windows 98...
[November 4, 2003, 10:45]
HP rallies developers around open-source tools
News The governance tools, originally built for internal use at HP, are designed to simplify the management of open-source licences within organisations. HP's Fossology tools are intended to reduce the uncertainty enterprises often associate with open...
[January 29, 2008, 16:29]
EU telecoms ministers meet to save 3G
News EU telecoms ministers including UK e-minister Patricia Hewitt met today to discuss methods of helping those companies that paid large sums of money for third-generation (3G) network licences. The EU Telecoms Council was expected to recommend that...
[April 4, 2001, 16:24]
Is CRM getting left on the shelf?
News A survey of nearly 700 companies conducted by research firm Gartner indicates that 42 percent of CRM software licences purchased have yet to be installed. One caveat is that some of the respondents may intend to use more licences eventually but...
[March 4, 2003, 10:35]
SCO names Linux licensee
Talkback SCO has dropped the IP claim, so why purchase licences from them at all? Come on ZDNet, get your facts right!
[March 2, 2004, 7:39]
Safe Sphere
Downloads Safe Sphere organizes and saves all your sensitive data like passwords, bank and credit card data, software licences, notes and more in one convenient window. It protects your data with the strongest cryptography available.
[September 6, 2009, 18:28]
Orange customer fights £800 roaming bill
Talkback We punters should have seen this coming when these highly paid business decision makers at Orange, etc.paid billions for their licences. They made the cock-up and we pay for it. What about a boycott?
[November 2, 2005, 11:08]
BSA explains its ethos
News Personal contact with the software group usually comes in the form of a "software audit," in which the BSA, often acting on a tip from an angry current or former employee, combs through a company's PC stock, matching installed programs with licences.
[August 3, 2004, 14:45]
Online ad firm pursues patent power
News We believe that as Internet advertising rebounds, our licences will generate a visible additional revenue stream," Moore said. 24/7 Real Media was granted a patent on Thursday for a method of delivering digital advertisements, giving it new...
[August 15, 2003, 16:30]
Microsoft simplifies Shared Source programme
News On the company's Shared Source Initiative Web site, Microsoft on Tuesday posted details of three new licences. Until now, Microsoft had more than 10 licences, many of which are specific to products or to the type of audience, such as academics...
[October 19, 2005, 17:05]
Life after Microsoft - One firm's complete conversion to open source
Talkback This reads like a case of sour grapes after being caught with the wrong number of licences. It beggers belief that the transistion was a breeze. A 'few proprietary applications' on top of a whole new OS doesn't sound like a breeze for the IT...
[August 26, 2003, 17:03]
Sun lays an open source licence to rest
News Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push to pare back the number of such licences. However, it's not been used by very many projects, and I don't think having it on Sun's list of...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
SCO fights back against 'don't pay' advice
News One of its moves was to start selling licences to commercial users of Linux; SCO claimed these would legitimise their use of the open-source software and minimise any exposure to future legal action over alleged breaches of SCO's intellectual...
[May 28, 2004, 9:55]
SCO takes softly, softly approach downunder
News The SCO Group is initially soft-pedalling threats of lawsuits against Australian and New Zealand companies who use Linux, as it starts marketing licences to secure revenue for use of the open source software.
[January 20, 2004, 9:40]
FSF: Microsoft cannot evade GPLv3
News The Free Software Foundation has dismissed claims by Microsoft that it is exempt from provisions of GPLv3 and has vowed to make sure the software giant "respects our copyrights and complies with our licences".
[August 29, 2007, 11:24]
News Burst: Costs of 3G mount
News Carriers may have paid over the odds for 3G licences so far, but they are likely to pay even more in the US, and European users could foot the bill, says Peter Judge. The networks to support third generation (3G) mobiles could cost between £3bn and...
[September 8, 2000, 10:48]
Government body says developing countries need open source
News Developing countries are advised against passing similar laws, and the commission goes so far as to advise them to declare void shrink-wrap software licences in some cases. Developing countries should look at open-source software and should avoid...
[September 13, 2002, 10:19]
