To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point. What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software companies, imposes on its customers.
The National Australia Bank has conceded its drive to embrace open standards is being hampered by the need to leverage existing investments in legacy applications.
Will open-source software undermine the traditional proprietary software model on which many vendors' businesses are based? Why are these IT giants joining open-source efforts? Can any company really profit from open-source software? And if not, why would anyone want to develop it?
For those who feared that the antitrust trial was a dangerous attempt by government to reassert control over the marketplace, there was plenty to cheer about. But, just what did the trial accomplish?
Oracle has licensed patents of the Open Invention Network, a group seeking to give open-source allies some clout in an intellectual property realm that favors the incumbent proprietary software powers.
You'd think that a national military scandal would be enough to convince people to take a little care with portable storage devices, but apparently not.
The patent system is supposed to encourage technological innovation. Instead, it rewards those who have the knowledge and resources to work it to their advantage.
Richard Stallman says even if Sun and others follow IBM's lead and started defusing the patent minefield of software development, the battle against software patents must continue.
Hewlett-Packard buried the hatchet on a long-standing patent dispute with EMC early this month, agreeing to pay $325 million to settle the case.
The software giant's recent XML-related patent applications highlight the struggle between open and proprietary.
Although Sun Microsystems recently made software patents available for use by open-source developers, OSI founder Bruce Perens cautions that the patent picture is turning increasingly murky.
America Online has quietly secured a patent that could shake up the competitive landscape for instant messaging software.
The University of California, Davis, gets a grant from the Defense Department to build a new generation of mobile phones that use optical signals to create speedier and more secure communication
America Online on Tuesday released an upgrade for its free Winamp multimedia software, and a fee-based "pro" version that encodes songs into MP3s is expected to follow.
New versions of software based on a popular file-compression technology could create headaches for users through their use of incompatible formats.
Members of the Ogg Vorbis project have unveiled release 1.0 of their software, an open-source alternative to the MP3 format.
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