Tag: Licensing
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BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation
BYOD could open businesses to copyright litigation: BSA:
Most businesses know that using pirated software can land them in hot water, but many don’t realise that their employees could also open the door to expensive litigation via BYOD schemes, according to Business Software Alliance chair Clayton Noble.… Continued
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Open Source Strategies for Software Vendors
From time to time I advise a software vendor on how, whether, or to what extent it should offer its technology in open source. In summary, I believe:
- The formal differences between “open source” and “closed source” strategies are of secondary importance.
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Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture
Pushing back against licensing and the permission culture – Luis Villa:
The open license ecosystem assumes that sharing can’t (or even shouldn’t) happen without explicit permission in the form of licenses. What if “post open source” is an implicit critique of that assumption – saying, in essence, “I reject the permission culture”?… Continued
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Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms
Cloud Foundry, Forking and the Future of Permissively Licensed Open Source Platforms:
A week ago today a minor skirmish broke out on Twitter between Apprenda – purveyor of PaaS software – and advocates of the open source Cloud Foundry project, originally created by VMware.… Continued
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A Note of Caution for Oracle Customers
Rob Enderle, never shy to point out what’s wrong with Oracle, goes on to explain why Oracle’s recent CFO change can be read as a sign of bad times ahead, and cautious Oracle’s customers to check their bill… what he doesn’t say, though, is that based on his reasoning, you should probably be checking if you’re in compliance with your licensing soon, else an audit may come costly.… Continued
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Oracle Licensing
Go read the Licensing Consulting blog! I know this is a non-technical post for once, but it’s a very good read for anybody remotely interested in the financials and business methods of Oracle and other Database vendors, to some extent. Good posts to start with are Oracle ULA contract agreement risk factors and The Oracle Support Recalculation issue.