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Microsoft to push up UK volume pricing by up to a third

...Independent Software Vendor agreements will all increase by 33.5 percent, and Open Licence Agreements will see an increase of 7.5 percent. Select and... Read more

2 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

National Archives refreshes government data licensing

...use, re-use and sharing of spatial data.Developed a non-commercial, 'open' licence for information to be re-used free of charge provided it... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Sade Laja

Government invites comments on open data plans

...in reusable, machine readable form; it will be released under the same open licence which enables free reuse, including commercial reuse; it will be available... Read more

28 June, 2010 by Kable

Microsoft winds down Windows NT sales

The software giant is no longer selling NT Server 4.0 via its volume licensing programmes, but will continue to sell individual copies of NT 4.0 through retail stores Read more

3 October, 2001 by Wylie Wong

Berners-Lee launches public-data mashup site

...to create web applications. The datasets will be made available under an open licence, which allows the data to be reused by anyone. The datasets... Read more

21 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Red Hat hit by patent claims

...Hibernate is an object-relational mapping tool for Java that's an open-licence product and part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS). In... Read more

3 July, 2006 by Candace Lombardi

Microsoft revamps Software Assurance

...one time ran to 214 pages is now 20 pages, and an open licence agreement that was around 30 pages is now five." Software Assurance... Read more

14 March, 2006 by Colin Barker

Your Gnu needs you

...the GPL has been exceptionally influential. Even those who prefer a different open licence agree that the GPL has been instrumental in creating an environment... Read more

19 January, 2006 by Leader

Welsh desktop Linux project is making slow progress

...working on KDE was the lack of lexical tools under an appropriate open licence — dictionaries, spellcheckers, grammar checkers," said Donnelly. "We're having to reinvent... Read more

9 January, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Industry backs Mozilla's commercial move

...to worry about in this case. The code is published under an open licence with a huge number of contributors who would all have to... Read more

3 August, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

JBoss and Apache clash on shared code

...Geronimo taking code from our licence and putting it in a very open licence," said Labourey, "Our license is not for fun, its important." JBoss... Read more

12 November, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft brings CRM to UK small businesses

...A ten-user licence on the standard sales product, on the Microsoft Open Licence scheme (which means the software is licensed for life but only... Read more

8 December, 2003 by Munir Kotadia

Open-source MP3 competitor goes mobile with Zaurus

The Ogg Vorbis project to create a fully open, licence-free alternative to the MP3 format got a boost on Thursday... Read more

12 April, 2002 by Matthew Broersma

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SoapyTablet

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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Jake Rayson

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

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NarayanaIyyappan

It is useful for their lifes,and also this matters are important for networking students.

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DarkDown

yeah! all we want free software

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Jack Strain

Just gimme a map to the fridge. :D

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Sungwoo

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itsajob

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Paul Smyth

Is this classic FUD? One thing I would definitely have notice is a Mozilla threat to stop supporting GNU/Linux.

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UnderINK

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Simon Bisson and Mary Branscombe

Nice to see that Turing's idea of a general purpose computer doing once-hardware-powered tasks in software is now universal ;-) Mary

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Jason Burchell

seriously now. I've only bothered to read a small bit of the comments. do me and the rest of the world a favour. stop saying it does not work or...

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Philip Charles Cohen

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apexwm

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songmaster

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