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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]
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]
Microsoft Has No Licence For Bad Behaviour
Leader Uniquely among Internet standards, Microsoft's restrictive licence is plainly incompatible with open source, in theory and in practice. You don't need a licence for HTML, DNS, or for TCP/IP -- open standards that have benefited Microsoft...
[September 3, 2004, 12:10]
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]
Netscape Posts Source Code Licence For Review
News Netscape today gave substance to its bid to fend of Microsoft's advance in Web browsers by releasing a draft version of the new Netscape Public Licence (NPL) for review at the new mozilla.org Web site.
[March 9, 1998, 16:25]
Should We Have A Licence For Our Identities?
Blog Do we own the details of our identity - and could they be protected by a licence rather than emotive and difficult-to-define privacy rules? Facebook and Plaxo are arguing over who gets to share their friends' personal data - but just owns that data?
[January 7, 2008, 13:36]
Microsoft's Licence To Kill
Leader The guilty party has responded not by publishing the information but by producing a licence. So far, you don't need a licence to write software for Microsoft operating systems. The implications of the licence are that if you don't sign up you will...
[March 18, 2005, 12:15]
SCO To Attack Validity Of Linux Licence
News If SCO is successful, its lawsuit would undermine the legal basis for Linux and much other open-source software, although the open-source community has prepared an alternative licence that could be used by Linux if the GPL is invalidated.
[August 15, 2003, 14:50]
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]
MPEG-4 Adoption Gets Closer As Licence Released
News A consortium of companies holding patents attached to the MPEG-4 multimedia standard released its licence for the technology, raising hopes for widespread adoption. That proposed licence set a cap of $1m per licensee, as well as a threshold that...
[November 26, 2002, 9:24]
'Failing' SCO Sees Linux Licence Revenue Plunge
News Under a much-lambasted licensing programme, SCO has been offering a licence to companies who use Linux, saying that it will protect from action by its legal department. Ovum advises companies not to buy a SCO Source licence unless SCO provides a...
[September 9, 2005, 14:05]
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
News The rationale was that Linux is such a minor part of our operations and that our usage is so small and isolated, it made business sense to pay the licence fee they were asking rather than risk potential litigation," Jones said.
[March 5, 2004, 7:45]
Intel Cans Its Open Source Licence
News Intel confirmed on Thursday that it has asked the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to remove its open source licence from future use as an approved OSI licence. He said that Intel would like to "remove from future use" the Intel Open Source License, to...
[March 31, 2005, 15:25]
Study: Software Licence Cheating Costs £18bn
News While the rate of licence cheating has fluctuated from country to country, globally it has remained steady since 2004. China, Russia and India have seen two or more point drops in their piracy rates, while licence cheating has increased in 19...
[May 24, 2006, 9:15]
Licence Nearly Up On Apple's Boot Camp Beta
News The Windows installation on a user's Mac will continue to work after the Boot Camp licence expires," said Apple spokeswoman Lynn Fox. Those considering setting up a Windows partition on a Mac using the test version of Apple's Boot Camp might want...
[April 11, 2007, 8:49]
Scottish Council Pays Up For Microsoft Licence Breach
News Clackmannanshire Council was found to be in breach of its Select contract with Microsoft, which allowed it purchase software licences at reduced prices, when it was exposed for buying 470 illegal licence agreements at a further discounted price.
[January 11, 2002, 17:01]
OneTel Withdraws From UK Mobile Licence Auction
News OneTel, backed by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, says that its business plans do not support a licence price in excess of £2.5m. A spokeswoman says that "licence bidding has exceeded everyone's expectations and OneTel was not prepared to buy a...
[April 6, 2000, 11:54]
Sun Lays An Open Source Licence To Rest
News Sun is recommending that nobody use an open-source licence it created, a small step in a broader push to pare back the number of such licences. The server and software company is retiring its Sun Industry Standards Source Licence (SISSL), said...
[September 5, 2005, 9:35]
Government Stands Firm Over 3G Licence Appeal
News Government officials are insisting that last year's 3G licence auction was not unlawful, as BT and One2One try to persuade the Court of Appeal that they were treated badly. All four companies successfully bid for a 3G licence but while BT and...
[June 19, 2001, 15:41]
