Hate reading software licenses? Not knowing the language might have something to do with it. Here’s a quick glossary No two licenses are the same. even licenses for the same application can vary ...

Software licensing agreements can be mind-boggling for even the most well-informed IT executive — with hidden traps in vendor contracts and variances in the types of agreements offered. Add regulatory ...

The free software movement has come a long way in forty years. We want to take a moment to thank the people and projects who have helped bring us to this point, and ask for your support in the decades ...

Siemens got into hot water after Broadcom acquired VMware and changed licensing terms. What can enterprises learn from the ongoing legal battle? When Broadcom acquired virtualization leader VMware in ...

As the global economy teeters somewhere between stagnation and recession, many companies are placing a renewed focus on cost management. Tech leaders, who hold significant portfolios of assets and ...

More than 10 years ago, the trend toward permissive licensing was so pronounced that RedMonk analyst James Governor declared, “Younger [developers] today are about POSS—post open source software.

Microsoft has opened discussions with the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade body with a view to resolving concerns about how customers that run the tech giant’s online ...