Everyone takes it for granted that the natural order of business is to sell software just as though it were a physical product, shipping it out as a manufactured item and charging a one-time perpetual ...

Today, software is ubiquitous and has been for more than half a century. From the early EDVAC system to the current Apple Watch, every computing device has needed software. However, software ...

The following is an edited excerpt from The Apple II Age: How The Computer Became Personal, by Laine Nooney, and is published with permission. He likened the copying of software to the photocopying of ...

Piracy and counterfeiting has been widespread since the dawn of artistic expression. In medieval times, counts and kings demanded paintings from high-class painters, but often received forgeries or ...

Back in the dim, dark past, much of the IT team's focus was to manage changes to IT resources. Some of this was around software (operating system and drivers), but mainly it was at the server level, ...

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 ...

Newswise — A newly-formed initiative at the University of California, San Diego will host a workshop to draw up a roadmap for the development of software studies as a new movement and field of ...

Most organizations today practice some form of agile development, but it wasn't always so. To understand agile's success, it helps to look back to the heyday of the waterfall methodology and the birth ...

A landmark 2014 ruling by the Supreme Court called into question the validity of many software patents. In the wake of that ruling, countless broad software patents became invalid, dealing a blow to ...