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SCO: We'll see Novell in court
News McBride and Chris Sontag, head of the company's SCOsource Unix licensing initiative, reiterated promises to begin showing samples of infringing Linux source code to customers, analysts and press representatives willing to sign nondisclosure...
[June 2, 2003, 9:12]
Monti to Microsoft: Guilty as charged
News On the server issue, there's compulsory licensing to a competitor of intellectual property. This is not an easy question: you have intellectually property rights, and the commission is trying to order compulsory licensing, and this is hard to order...
[March 24, 2004, 10:25]
Microsoft Office Standard 2007 review
Reviews The Basic package, with Word, Excel and Outlook, only comes pre-installed on computers sold by manufacturers that have Microsoft software licensing agreements. We spent 40 minutes just skimming the 10,379-word End User License Agreement and stopped...
[January 30, 2007, 10:16]
Economist testifies on Microsoft remedy
News A third provision, according to Shapiro, would ensure that Microsoft couldn't restrict through licensing agreements the distribution of third-party middleware to PC makers. A five-year technology agreement for continued Office development expires...
[April 12, 2002, 7:31]
The legacy of Microsoft's 1994 consent decree
News Bill Neukom: I think the government thought its job was to try to ensure there was a market for the licensing of desktop operating systems going forward. The agreement also limited Microsoft from engaging PC makers in contracts that lasted more...
[July 13, 2004, 16:00]
Microsoft publishes Office specs in OOXML push
News Steve Mutkoski, regional director of interoperability at Microsoft and one of the lawyers on the team that drafted the licensing terms, described the OSP as an "innovation" that enables a company like Microsoft to gain a quick and broad adoption...
[February 18, 2008, 14:04]
RealNetworks launches subscription music service
News That has provided a needed boost to RealNetworks' bottom line as its advertising, media hosting and software licensing revenues have plunged. Although MusicNet is in negotiations with Sony and Vivendi to expand its catalog, no agreement has been...
[December 4, 2001, 16:00]
War of the Apples: Peace in our time
News In a statement released on Monday, Apple Inc (the Mac manufacturer) and Apple Corps (the multimedia organisation founded by the Beatles) announced a "new agreement" in the case, whereby Apple Inc will own all of the related trademarks, licensing...
[February 5, 2007, 14:53]
Scottish council pays up for Microsoft licence breach
News The BSA is currently investigating 500 companies across the UK for suspected under-licensing, six of which are government organisations. A Scottish council has been compelled to pay the British Software Alliance (BSA) an undisclosed sum of money...
[January 11, 2002, 17:01]
News Roundup: Microsoft v Psion on wireless Internet
News The deal was followed up Tuesday by an agreement by Motorola, another Symbian member, licensing 3Com's Palm OS for wireless technology. Microsoft and Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson last week announced a partnership to develop wireless Internet applications.
[December 10, 1999, 14:53]
Doubts raised over Android fragmentation
News Wood went on to list the extra costs of mobile open source: the costs of debugging; the loss of intellectual property through "copyleft"; licensing costs for "numerous upper layers"; and "opportunity costs from not being the most innovative".
[June 12, 2008, 15:05]
Clampdown on rogue diallers is imminent
News We're going to return to some form of licensing," said an informed source. Agreement has been reached between ICSTIS, which regulates the UK premium rate phone services market, and the government over new powers that will be introduced to try and...
[July 14, 2004, 17:25]
Report on Linux origins falls at the starting gate
News Why are the most brilliant business minds in the history of PC technology, with hundreds of millions of dollars in capital, licensing Unix source code, if it is as simple as writing it from scratch with little help or experience?
[May 20, 2004, 13:40]
Sun and Kodak settle out of court
News Licensing deals Kodak called the settlement agreement "tentative" but said the company achieved its goal to protect its intellectual property. Sun Microsystems has settled a patent suit brought by Eastman Kodak relating to Java software, agreeing...
[October 8, 2004, 9:45]
Sun to supercharge UltraSparc with Afara acquisition
News Sun designed the original Sparc chips, but the chip's specifications are owned by the Sparc International nonprofit organisation and available for anyone who spends the $90 (£63) licensing fee, Yen said.
[June 26, 2002, 9:43]
TDK strikes PC Card deal with Nokia
News The deal extends TDK's boundaries for its PC cards by giving the company access to all GSM based telephony standards. This will put TDK at the forefront of European-wide compatible PC card development.
[January 22, 1997, 17:18]
Microsoft reaches settlement with Burst
News Burst said late last week that the two companies have reached an agreement "in principle" and expect to have a more formal settlement completed next week. The agreement resulted in the cancellation of a court hearing scheduled for that day.
[March 14, 2005, 15:45]
Crunch Time for Sun, Microsoft
News If an agreement is not reached in which both sides can claim victory, Sun has a number of options. The talks between high-level officials, which were ongoing at press time, will prove pivotal this week in the relationship between Microsoft and Sun...
[September 29, 1997, 15:02]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
News The catch is that because the computers were sold with a corporate licence, it is effectively illegal for the charities make use of the computers without falling foul of Microsoft's licence agreement.
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
Microsoft tweaks 'shared source' for Windows CE
News DeGroot also faulted the licensing terms governing the source-code changes, calling them a "deal breaker" for most manufacturers. But some say the company's licensing terms could kill interest in the plan.
[April 10, 2003, 8:20]
