These days, businesses are no longer as willing to accept the status quo in their relationships with technology companies. Instead, there’s a movement underway where enterprises actively seek partners ...

Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete. Most software will soon be purchased by agents. Prepare for consumption-based pricing models. Goodbye, per-seat software licensing? Goodbye, software ...

Tracking Trends in Communications Software Pricing/Licensing Our newest columnist will keep you apprised of developments in the complex, ever-evolving world of pricing as communications moves to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

“While the evolving capabilities of AI bring increased functionality and features, they also raise important legal considerations for parties negotiating software license agreements.” As software ...

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

Industrial equipment manufacturers are shifting from costly hardware variants to software differentiation, unlocking recurring revenue and customer value through strategic licensing models. • Managing ...

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) — a nonprofit project hosting the Samba and BusyBox projects — has announced a new initiative to engage in enforcement of the Gnu General Public License and ...