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Microsoft to standardise HD Photo technology
News In November, it liberalised the licensing policy — dropping fees, for example. And the company has said HD Photo technology is covered by the Open Specification Promise, an agreement under which Microsoft pledges not to assert its patent rights...
[March 7, 2007, 9:02]
Lindows goes back to school
News Software maker Lindows has launched a licensing programme that will allow educational institutions to install its namesake operating system on an unlimited number of computers for $500 per year. Schools in California could get even more Microsoft...
[January 15, 2003, 13:56]
Debian rejects Sender ID
News Developers responsible for the Debian Linux distribution announced on Saturday that they will not implement Sender ID due to Microsoft's insistence on licensing the anti-spam standard. Microsoft has released Sender ID under a royalty free licence...
[September 6, 2004, 13:00]
Sun rings in executive changes
News He testified against Microsoft in court, arguing that the software giant violated a Java licensing contract between two companies. The moves mark the first major executive changes at Sun following Friday's sweeping agreement between that company...
[April 5, 2004, 16:05]
AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun
News Indeed, the pending licensing and co-development deal between Sun and AOL gives Sun access to source code for most, if not all, of Netscape's products. In essence, the pending three-way agreement could boil down to what the deal likely would have...
[January 12, 1999, 16:32]
A Year Ago: AOL/Netscape and the rising Sun
News Indeed, the pending licensing and co-development deal between Sun and AOL gives Sun access to source code for most, if not all, of Netscape's products. In essence, the pending three-way agreement could boil down to what the deal likely would have...
[January 11, 2000, 6:01]
Microsoft gives discounts on software licences
News The cuts are similar to those that Microsoft has made on the cost of licensing specific products. One special promotion is 'Simplify and Save', which offers savings of 15 percent for those who consolidate at least two existing licence agreements...
[March 12, 2009, 14:48]
Exclusive: Palm extending to applications, peripherals
News More and more, the 3Com subsidiary is moving beyond simply licensing its Palm OS to instead develop Palm-branded products based on technology licensed from its partners. Under the agreement, Palm will sell the keyboard under the Palm brand.
[October 11, 1999, 12:24]
Oki bows to Rambus pressure
News By licensing these innovations to generate a return on investment to our shareholders. This agreement ensures that Oki has rights to these important Rambus patents which are necessary for current and future memory and logic products," said managing...
[July 28, 2000, 12:03]
Microsoft decision coming today
News These included: uniform Windows pricing; prohibitions against product tying (although no concessions on integration of Internet Explorer with Windows); prohibitions against all exclusive contracts; opening of the Windows application programming...
[April 3, 2000, 16:48]
SCO and BayStar still fighting
News According to SCO, BayStar claims that SCO has given inconsistent statements to the public and to BayStar about SCOsource licensing opportunities. BayStar intends to file an action requesting a declaratory judgment with respect to its rights under...
[July 26, 2004, 9:10]
The catch in 'free' Solaris 8
News Although Sun Microsystems downplayed "Free Solaris" programs during the Solaris 8 launch Wednesday in New York City, it was Sun's licensing terms that most interested the financial analysts and journalists in attendance.
[January 27, 2000, 8:15]
Sony, Warner license anti-piracy standard
News When the program "is received in your home on a digital set-top or cable box, it then enters the DTCP domain," said Michael Ayers, president of the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, an organisation created by electronics manufacturers...
[July 18, 2001, 11:35]
Opinion: One cheer for the DOJ
News The interim judgement states that Microsoft shall "desist from the practice of licensing the use of any Microsoft personal computer operating system software (including Windows 95 or any successor version thereof) on the condition.that the...
[December 12, 1997, 11:13]
Google 'guarantees' Android compatibility
News One aspect of Android that has raised concerns has been the nature of its licensing. The web giant has also confirmed that the members of the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) have signed a "non-fragmentation agreement", thus answering doubts that have...
[November 13, 2007, 7:02]
Outsourcing brings legal woes over software licences
News According to Fast, the relationship between software licensing and outsourcing is "poorly understood" by users and could cause problems if licence restrictions are not discovered at an early stage. Butler warned that vicarious liability -- where...
[July 8, 2003, 8:43]
IBM accused of lifting privacy language
News It is also asking the court for a permanent injunction preventing IBM from licensing the EPAL specification without its consent. The standard drew on ZKS's pre-existing protocol, Privacy Rights Markup Language (PRML), which it shared with IBM under...
[June 10, 2004, 10:30]
Apple's war games
Blog It's also not too much of a deal killer: all Apple has to do is offload the part onto another company used to producing specialist silicon for particular markets - and there are lots of companies like that - and do its own licensing deals to allow...
[April 30, 2008, 10:07]
Microsoft cuts fees for schools
News A "memorandum of understanding" has been signed between the software giant and the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) to cut the licensing fees, which the two are predicting will save English schools around £46m over...
[December 5, 2003, 10:50]
Microsoft angered by UK developer
News Microsoft has demanded that a London-based Windows developer withdraws a version of his free debugging tool from distribution, and is claiming that the tool breaches its licensing conditions. When asked for the details of the ban he said: "I'm not...
[June 1, 2007, 10:03]
