The Chinese government is also a major purchaser of licensed software in a country where piracy is rampant.
Building on the successful TSS library, it offers a comprehensive solution with complementary licensed software and cost-effective development tools.
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Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is liberally licensed software that grants users the right to use, study, adapt and distribute its design through the availability of its source code.
Federal purchases of software and IT consulting and systems integration are likely to experience 5% to 7% decreases, as projects get cancelled or delayed and agencies shift from on-premise licensed software deployments to SaaS offerings with lower initial costs.
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Terraspring licensed its management software to HP in 2001, then sold itself to Sun last November.
In a USENIX session on this subject, Apple's senior software engineer Fred Sanchez said that Apple was wary of software licensed under the popular GNU Public License (GPL), because of the restrictions placed on incorporating the code into commercial software.
In 2004 Marvell licensed chip designs and software to a firm called Alliant Networks that was designing a chip to handle both cellular and Wi-Fi signals.
Soon after the sale, Joltid sued eBay, the investor group and Skype in the U.S. for copyright infringement of its technology, reaffirming a previous and similar lawsuit in the U.K. In November, eBay announced it and the investor group reached a settlement with Joltid that gave Skype ownership of all software previously licensed from Joltid.
The MotionEngine software can be licensed for integration into a customer's hardware, or it can be purchased as part of a module or remote control offered by Hillcrest.
In its latest ruling, the Library of Congress decided the software on a phone is only licensed to the end user, meaning they don't own it, so therefore the software is not covered by fair-use rules.
He noted that more than 100 million mobile device users had upgraded to the new iOS software, replacing a Google-powered maps app with Apple's own software which relies on licensed navigation data.
The alliance has already licensed Directory Server 4.1 to Check Point Software, Hewlett-Packard and Compaq.
Google initially licensed Jinni to use in Google TV but the software ended up on the cutting room floor.
Analysts say HP, which has traditionally licensed operating systems from other companies, is likely to trim its software partners after the Palm acquisition.
SIM2 and Entertainment Experience, which heretofore focused on unique digital media products for the commercial cinema, education, and hi-tech display market spaces, announce that they will begin offering a hardware-software content solution-including pre-loaded, fully licensed motion picture content-that delivers better-than-HD digital video performance to home buffs.
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Now anyone anywhere can provide software, thus reducing the need for costly boxed and proprietary licensed code.
Even though they may still partake in shady practices, such as evading taxes, avoiding safety checks and using pirated software, a growing number of bandit phone firms are becoming licensed, creating brands with nearly as much recognition as established domestic ones.
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