Articles tagged with: software licensing
Its easy to think of software licensing and copy protection as little more than “insurance”: a part of the business that is necessary to protect against misfortune – but doesn’t really add much to the bottom line when things…
Avistar is a leader
in the desktop visual communications market. The company was founded…
Many ISV start ups looking at software licensing and copy protection issues are 
tempted by wrapper solutions. There are 3 main reasons for this:
- Wrappers are cheap
- Wrappers are easy to deploy
- You don’t need access to
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Most organizations probably think they have a pretty good handle on what software license agreements they have signed up to, but closer inspection may reveal significant gaps in corporate knowledge of what software licensing terms and conditions have been…
An interesting post by Forrester’s Andrew Bartels offers 2 very encouraging messages for those involved in publishing licensed software.
Firstly, Bartels reports the recovery of licensed software revenues in QT. SAP…
This case study shows how NIK Software dealt with 3 key software licensing challenges, which many ISV’s will recognise.
NIK Software Inc is a privately held US company that…
At first glance the idea of converting software pirates into paying customers may seem an unlikely proposition, but this webinar explains how, for many big names in the software industry, this makes a significant contribution to the bottom line.…
Nintendo has recently reported that games sales in Europe have fallen by c50% due to increased use of so called “Magicom” devices.
These devices are typically around the same size as a traditional games cartridge with a separate memory…
In a new development in the story we reported earlier in the week on Microsoft’s record breaking software piracy compensation win it now appears that Dazhong Insurance may be putting in…
SL.tv is delighted to report on this ground-breaking verdict from a Chinese court. Last Thursday a district court in China ruled that Dazhong Insurance must pay Microsoft $317,900 in compensation for use of pirated software.
This is the first…
