So I go to the store and plunk down X dollars for a copy of some Random Software Title. What have I really purchased? It's been argued that I have purchased nothing; rather, I have paid a fee for a ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

It can be a juggling act to curb unnecessary costs on additional software licences while ensuring there are enough licences for all users. IT departments will often procure more seats than they ...

Who knew that software licensing would ever turn into such hotly contested territory? A proposed law designed to streamline the way states treat software licensing has drawn fire from a number of ...

A group of legal experts amended a proposed overhaul of state laws governing software licensing Thursday to address widespread concern about consumer rights that has stalled passage of the bill in ...

ZDNET's key takeaways Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete.Most software will soon be purchased by agents.Prepare ...

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 ...

When Dataprise, an IT services company, helped a customer with a desktop virtualization project last year, it found itself dealing with desktop virtualization’s dirty little secret: No one — including ...