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Microsoft Fails To Quash Second-hand Software Market
News A UK company that specialises in second-hand software claims to have found a loophole in Microsoft software licensing that has enabled it to continue trading five months after the software giant attempted to stamp out the practice.
[March 6, 2008, 14:09]
Second-hand PC Shipments Tipped To Boom
Talkback No software license fees to pay in the first place on a GNU/Linux machine. All nice and legal, thanks to the GPL.
[September 28, 2005, 17:26]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback How is the software different from the hardware? So the software developers are automatically better off. It takes some time and money to make one or the other, how much would it cost 1000 units of each ready for sale?
[November 13, 2005, 15:27]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback Software isn't usually sold. Others. Usually it's licensed under certain (changing) terms and conditions you may or may not agree with. And usually they come with fine print you might want to research to the fullest to really know what your rights...
[November 13, 2005, 20:49]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
Talkback What is the difference between paid for software licences and personal computers? In financial terms, they are both capital expenditure that can be re couped when a company goes into liquidation. Microsoft would be wrong to block it, just as it...
[November 13, 2005, 9:36]
Second-hand PC Shipments Tipped To Boom
News Demand for second-hand PCs is soaring in parts of the developing world, analyst group Gartner reported on Wednesday. The demand for [second-hand] PCs continues to exceed supply, providing opportunistic but potentially lucrative opportunities for...
[September 28, 2005, 15:00]
Microsoft Licensing Prices Tipped To Fall
News Licensing prices for Microsoft software are set to plunge because of a second-hand market which has sprung up, thanks to a loophole in its terms and conditions. Second-hand licences will not suit all businesses though, warned David Mitchell...
[November 14, 2005, 16:10]
Second-hand Microsoft Licences Take Off
News A company that began trading in second-hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn has been attracting business from within the UK and internationally. Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
News Shocked vendors have reacted angrily to the news that Disclic, through discount-licensing.com, has been able to sell second-hand software licences from insolvent or downsizing firms to other businesses with Microsoft's blessing.
[November 10, 2005, 15:00]
The Pig Farmer's Guide To IT Politics
Leader More than that, it forbids — on arguable grounds — the second-hand sale of its software. It found someone selling second-hand software on eBay and used legislation designed to protect online media to shut his store, and his livelihood, down.
[September 14, 2007, 17:17]
Counting The Cost Of Counterfeiting
Talkback On the other hand, more then anything, they rather see people using Microsoft software illegally then seeing people using Microsoft alternatives legally. On the one hand they want to cry foul and waive with research that speaks of absurd losses so...
[May 23, 2006, 21:27]
Borland Makes Another Profit
News Borland's return to profitability comes hand in hand with a sharp reduction in the company's expenses. The oft-struggling software company earned $1.5 million during its second fiscal quarter. Earlier Tuesday, Borland confounded Wall Street with an...
[October 22, 1997, 12:59]
SCO's 'Las Vegas Code': All Show?
News The problem, he says, lies on the one hand in SCO's demands that Linux users buy licences and on the other hand that it has brought trade secret claims against IBM. Thus, says Moglen, SCO's second example was of code that in the public domain to...
[November 27, 2003, 12:40]
I Have A Query On This One.
Talkback And why are we putting up with being given 'Terms' to comply with that stop us re-selling our goods second-hand, and at the same time say that if the product doesn't work or causes damage the company isn't liable?
[March 6, 2008, 15:26]
It Is Only True Up To A Point
Talkback You can look for second-hand Microsoft software on the web. The first point to be clear on is that all you buy is a license to use the software. The software is owned by Microsoft and they will always own it.
[March 6, 2008, 15:33]
Bridging The Gap Between Acme And UML 2.0 For CBD
White Papers UML, on the other hand, has become the de facto standard notation for design modeling, both in industry and in academia. Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) such as Acme (a mainstream second generation ADL which contains the most common ADL...
[July 29, 2004, 0:00]
Grady Booch: The Developer's Developer
News So, I'd not call it cyberdependency, but rather I'd call it just exploiting the resources at hand. Spending an increasing amount of time on research, he remains an active participant in IBM's vision for next-generation software engineering, which...
[September 26, 2007, 17:34]
Start-up Beats IBM For Linux Software
News Although the company sells support for LVM to customers who want it, its major revenue source is file system software that works hand in hand with LVM. A revamped version of key disk drive management software in Linux will be based on a project...
[January 6, 2003, 8:48]
UK Patent Office Considers Problem Of Trivial Patents
Talkback If on the other hand, the 'best way' is cheap or simple to invent, which is the case with most software concepts (note 'concepts' not products - a product does take a long time and hence is expensive to develop, but most of the work is not...
[February 9, 2006, 9:36]
Amazon Sneaks A Peek At XP Prices - Again
News The software giant plans to hand off the final Windows XP code to manufacturers Friday in a press event at the company's Redmond, Wash.headquarters. This is the second glitch that has caused Amazon to prematurely take preorders for Windows XP...
[August 24, 2001, 8:53]
