Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Virtualisation sets a number of software-licensing traps for the unwary, but they can largely be avoided through some sensible precautions, says Manek Dubash. IBM was embarrassed after it launched its ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

Service to negotiate contracts for site-licensed software and administer the distribution to the campus, including programs such as SUNY ITEC. UB makes available links to contracted vendors for ...

Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly ...

Does software have copyright? Even more specifically, is the Internet free inspite of software copyright? Are software programming languages free of cost? How does copyright apply to software? A ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs entity tasked with centralizing software management across the agency is eyeing artificial intelligence to more swiftly drive cost savings by offloading licenses ...

Software licence agreements are extremely common, particularly in the start-up world. If you’re reading this on a PC or mobile device, you will have entered into an end user licence agreement (EULA) ...

The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP, over its case against a German second-user software license reseller. The court’s decision builds on a 2012 European Court of Justice landmark ...

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