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SCO to attack validity of Linux licence
Talkback Let SCO take the highground and remove all the GPL software from its products. I am curious how long will SCO survive without gcc or samba or apache.
[August 20, 2003, 14:57]
Fighting Microsoft's licence check
Talkback softstag - software piracy isn't theft. No-one is denied access to property as a result of piracy. Stop being so alarmist. There is no evidence that a pirated copy is a lost sale.
[June 21, 2006, 13:23]
What lies ahead for OpenSolaris?
News Earlier in January, the CDDL earned official open source licence status -- not a great surprise, given that it was derived from the existing Mozilla Public License. For one thing, Solaris x86 will be free to those who just want the software and...
[January 25, 2005, 14:10]
Corel's Java suite light on code, features
News It will initially be sold on a per server licence, but Corel plans to sell it as a standalone product later on. It will cost around £1,300 per server, £1,000 for each subsequent licence for two to four servers, and £800 apiece for five to twenty...
[December 3, 1996, 16:38]
Microsoft expands XP rights through Windows 7
News Downgrade rights have long been a part of the Windows licence for certain versions, particularly for businesses. Microsoft has said it plans to offer users the option to buy machines with Windows 7 licences that have been 'pre-downgraded' by the...
[April 7, 2009, 12:57]
Microsoft ending Vista family discount
News I thought it was bad enough that we have to pay $50 [£25] for an additional licence to get a downgraded version of [Vista]. Five months after its introduction, Microsoft is discontinuing a program that offered some Windows Vista purchasers the...
[June 29, 2007, 9:23]
New Symantec will spend a year setting pricing
News Symantec security products have been sold in a variety of ways - from a store product for a single user up to a site licence for thousands of users. It could take a year for Symantec to sort out a common pricing strategy after its merger with...
[August 3, 2005, 17:05]
OpenMortal
Downloads OpenMortal is freely available, released under the GNU General Public Licence. Open Mortal, also know as "Mortal Szombat", is a parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat, for Window, Linux and Mac.
[November 17, 2006, 7:00]
ARM takes on Intel with Adobe partnership
News Various chipmakers that licence ARM's architecture, including Broadcom, Freescale, Nvidia, Texas Instruments and Samsung, will collaborate with the partners to make sure the technology that they develop will work on their chipsets.
[November 17, 2008, 4:02]
MatrixPage2Pict
Downloads Compatible with the Retrieva and Extensis Portfolio asset management applications, this Quark XTension provides a preview of all the Quark pages within the document along with previews of all images used and co-ordinates of the picture boxes.This...
[May 30, 2007, 8:00]
Watchdog issues rogue-dialler help
News Only last week we barred 11 companies because they were operating without a licence. ICSTIS is insisting that premium-rate companies trade with a licence, which can only be obtained by producing a confirmation letter from 090 service providers.
[October 21, 2004, 17:50]
PeopleSoft: Please ignore the ex-CEO behind the curtain
News We reported incredibly strong licence results for our third quarter, evidence that PeopleSoft is competitive in the market place, and it also points to the fact that we have tremendous support from our customers.
[October 4, 2004, 17:30]
Microsoft, the NHS, licence fees and oddness.
Blog And I thought MS had a principled objection to making software available at low prices? And what does this do to the rest of the market - can a company with such an overwhelming presence in office productivity software push discount product like...
[June 29, 2009, 16:06]
Vista's graphics to require licence check
News But before Vista will display its showiest side, known as Aero, it will run a check to make sure the software was properly purchased. Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you can prove you've paid for your copy.
[April 13, 2006, 17:30]
Sun loosens Java licence, changes logo
News Java, along with Solaris and the Sun Open Network Environment (Sun ONE) server software suite, let Sun hold influence even as it lets outside technology such as Intel and AMD processors or the Linux operating system into its fold.
[June 6, 2003, 14:31]
City of Newcastle save millions in move from mainframes
News The council undertook a four-year IT transformation programme with support from Fujitsu Services which included adopting a new client-server infrastructure based on Fujitsu Prime Power boxes, moving to SAP applications for HR and payroll and...
[June 15, 2006, 16:35]
Users rip MS licence changes
News There are alternatives to Microsoft's Windows and Office software, including the Linux operating system and Sun Microsystems' StarOffice productivity package. For some Microsoft customers, it's paying as much as 107 percent more for the software...
[September 21, 2001, 9:00]
GPLv3 is more than a licence
Leader Software developers, huge corporations, leaders, lawyers, you and me: we had our chance. A community realised that it had produced untold billions of dollars' worth of software in freedom, and decided that this was worth continuing.
[July 2, 2007, 17:27]
Microsoft offers Vista licence discount
News It's not clear what they'll be choosing, since all they are getting is a product key — the software bits themselves will already be in their hands — either on the hard drive of their Vista PC or on a DVD that came with the computer or boxed copy...
[January 18, 2007, 7:33]
PHP developer app to go open source
News Comploj said Maguma will continue to make money from sales of its Workbench software, which is marketed as a more heavyweight development environment with a number of customisable plug-ins. Maguma currently licenses its studio software on a per...
[March 2, 2005, 14:45]
