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Talkback For £7 NEC will provide a couple of CDs which will enable yo to install XP utilising your existing Vista licence. I think you misunderstand.
[February 6, 2008, 23:30]
Creative Commons licence upheld by court
News A court in the Netherlands has ruled that a Creative Commons (CC) licence is binding in a case brought against a Dutch gossip magazine by an ex-MTV star. This is one of the first times that the licence — which offers more flexibility than...
[March 21, 2006, 10:50]
SCO sets up Linux-licence shop
News It enables companies that use Linux to purchase a licence that covers SCO's Unix System V, portions of which SCO claims were illegally incorporated into the source code of Linux. An annual licence costs $149 per server CPU or $49 per desktop PC.
[February 24, 2004, 7:20]
3G licence auction starts Monday
News The licence with the largest amount of spectrum has been reserved for a new entrant into the UK market. The government's auction for 3G UK mobile network licences -- the first in Europe -- begins today.
[March 6, 2000, 12:14]
Microsoft points the way to licence support
News Microsoft UK's licence compliance manager, Alex Hilton, told ZDNet UK that the software giant has in the past been seen as "wading in because it wanted the revenue", whereas now it wants to present its customers with a more sensitive attitude.
[May 14, 2004, 15:45]
German 3G licence auction: how the bidding works
News For German speaking readers, full coverage of the German 3G licence auction can be found on ZDNet Germany. The first bids were announced at 9am GMT yesterday. Each party is allowed to come back ten times a day to increase its bid for up to three...
[August 1, 2000, 17:07]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
Talkback CA didn't pay a Linux Licence. Look on Grocklaw. Get your facts right ZDNet!
[March 5, 2004, 10:25]
Only 1 user licence
Member Review Called PC-cillin asking for 3 user licence. No you have to buy 3". That's £120, Norton 3 user is £75.difference means Norton + ZoneAlarm wins.
[December 30, 2004, 10:45]
Google Code reverses open-source licence ban
News Eclipse is an important, lively and healthy project with an enormous plug-in and developer community that uses an otherwise duplicative licence. Google has undone a ban on the Mozilla Public License, an option for open-source projects hosted at its...
[August 29, 2008, 8:39]
BBC tech chief calls for iPlayer licence fee
News A loophole which allows those who only watch BBC programming through iPlayer to avoid paying the licence fee means that some users are getting a "free ride", the BBC's director of Future Media and Technology Erik Huggers told a Broadcasting Press...
[May 21, 2009, 10:00]
Computer Associates buys SCO's Linux licence
Talkback Notwithstanding the previous reponses, Why would anyone sign up and pay for SCO (ridiculous) licence at this particular time?
[March 8, 2004, 14:04]
SCO's Linux licence will create backlash
News SCO this week launched a licensing programme aimed at convincing companies using Linux systems to buy a licence protecting them from legal action. Red Hat, the largest Linux vendor, has so far resisted taking retaliatory action against SCO, but was...
[July 25, 2003, 14:08]
Prices set for Belgium's 3G licence auction
News With a third-generation(3G) auction scheduled for December the Belgian government has set a reserve price of over £90m per licence. The licences allow companies to develop high-speed UMTS networks, capable of delivering Internet and multimedia...
[September 18, 2000, 11:36]
Torvalds: GPLv3 is 'just another licence'
News DRM is a technology used to control the copying and distribution of content such as music and films, while GPLv3 (General Public License version 3) is a software licence drafted by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and intended to govern how free...
[January 17, 2007, 8:17]
Sun submits software licence to Open Source Initiative
News Sun has quietly begun seeking official open-source status for a new software licence that likely will be used to govern its Solaris operating system. But the licence may inhibit cross-pollination between Solaris and Linux -- a sacrifice Sun appears...
[December 3, 2004, 7:45]
Licence growth pushes up BEA profits
News Licence revenue, which had declined for the previous five quarters, grew by 2 percent to $118.3m. BEA Systems reported an 18 percent quarterly jump in net income and saw its license revenue increase for the first time in more than a year.
[August 19, 2005, 15:45]
Microsoft sells first licence in EC programme
News Microsoft's licence to Quest comes at a key time for the software giant. Quest, via its Microsoft WSPP licence, will receive access to communications protocols that are implemented in Windows server operating systems.
[March 9, 2007, 9:42]
Microsoft launches 'charity friendly' software licence
News Microsoft has created a special software licence for Windows 98 and Windows 2000 that allows charities and schools to use second-hand PCs without breaking the company's end user licence rules. The catch is that because the computers were sold with...
[April 8, 2004, 17:50]
New Java licence aims to spark innovation
News Java inventor James Gosling on Wednesday will unveil a new licence intended to spark vigorous research into new directions for the programming technology. The new licence, to be described in Gosling's Wednesday speech to the thousands of Java...
[June 11, 2003, 7:39]
O2 halves the value of its UK 3G licence
News It now believes its UK 3G licence is worth just £2bn -- having paid just over £4bn for it in the 2000 auction. Analysts believe that there is only room for three successful 3G operators in the UK -- where five companies currently hold a 3G licence.
[May 21, 2003, 10:35]
