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One Million Dollar Motivation…
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BSA sure knows how to incentivize people to stamp out software pirates.  In an effort to capture these “pirates,” BSA announced the expansion of their $1 million dollar reward program to include the illegal sale of software over the Internet, such as auctions of unlicensed software. BSA has already paid out $58,000 in reward money to just 14 individuals who have reported software piracy.  A majority of the reporting comes from within an organization, from employees in their current or […]

Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance
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In the News This Week ·       CIO SAP Raises Software Maintenance Fees for New Customers ·       eWeek Report: Subscriptions to Surge for Open-Source Licensing ·      Search CIO Gartner: Windows heavyweight champ, but no longer nimble       ·     WTN News Beware vendor’s line in software licensing agreements Editor’s note: This is the first of several columns that will explore IT contracting best practices. Many negotiations for software licenses or system.       ·      Computing Software licensing models: virtualisation continues to make its … […]

Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance
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In the News This Week · CRN Microsoft: Using Vista Loophole Is Cheating Scott Rosenberg, CEO of Miro Consulting, a Fords, NJ-based firm that specializes in licensing issues, acknowledges that technical loopholes in Microsoft … ·         Gotta Be Mobile Vista Upgrade Licensing Loophole Ed Bott has it totally right – just because the loophole is there, it doesn’t mean that everyone can take exploit it and stay within Microsoft’s licensing … ·         Redman Channel Partner Avistar’s Tale: Microsoft Shows Its […]

Brian Frank of Adobe Talks about Flash Lite 3
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This is an interesting video from Beet.tv that talks about the licensing of Adobe’s Flash Lite 3 to Microsoft. Beet.tv interviewed Brian Frank from Adobe how Flash Lite enables viewing of Flash video on mobile phones, and subsequently, opens up doors for games and customized user interfaces. Microsoft’s multimedia platform has offered the promise of enabling these types of applications – which has attracted players like Adobe to their network. 450 million devices are now being shipped with Flash Lite […]

Microsoft: Using Vista Loophole is Cheating
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I was called upon by CRN/ChannelWeb’s Microsoft Reporter Kevin McLaughlin today to comment on the Vista loophole or as we like to call it “the big ol’ gaping software licensing issue that’s giving Microsoft a migraine issue.”  The article Microsoft: Using Vitas Loophole is Cheating ran about an hour after I spoke with Kevin on the phone.  We’ll likely see much more coverage on this software licensing issue in the upcoming weeks.

Educators bypass software licensing costs?
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Certainly, technology in the classroom is growing across the globe and educators and technology companies alike are paying attention to the potential advance systems such as miniBooks have in our school systems. A company called RM recently donated 25 miniBooks to a school in the UK that use Linux OS and free software packages such as Open Office. By avoiding using Windows, software licensing fees are bypassed, cutting down on the costs that could certainly discourage other schools from using […]

Week in Review (Around the World): Software Licensing and Compliance
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In the News This Week ·    CIO How a European Bank Got Oracle to Surrender Key Software Licensing… ·    CNN Money Virtualization Real Issue For Software Licensing/ ·   ComputerWeekly Court ruling strengthens UK patents on software It follows an appeal case brought by software licensing company, Symbian, after a patent application was rejected by the Intellectual Property Office. ·   Trusted Views Microsoft Licenses Adobe Flash For Windows Mobile ·   WebProNews Enterprise Software Up Google’s Alley?

Remember: Mobile Devices Get Adobe & Is Subject to Software Licensing Too
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Here is an interesting news item – Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, specifically designed for mobile devices. They have also licensed Adobe Reader LE Software for viewing web content and email attachments. For those of you following the company’s plans – they had announced earlier this month that they would be releasing a rival to the Adobe product. Interesting turn of events. What does this mean in terms of licensing? Even your mobile phones can play a part in […]

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