11Feb
Autodesk Follows Adobe’s Shift to Subscription Only Cloud Offerings
In May 2013, Adobe announced that CS6 would be the last version of its Creative Suite software product line that would be available under traditional, stand-alone, perpetual licenses. Instead, all releases of Creative Suite products...
29Jan
Campaign for Clear Licensing Turns its Sights to IBM and SAP
Having shone its spotlight on Oracle’s notoriously complex licensing policies and often adversarial audit practices, the Campaign for Clear Licensing (CCL), a UK-based organization advocating reforms to software-licensing practices, now has shifted its attention to...
20Oct
Autodesk License Alert
One venerable software license model that many companies have utilized in the past has been the license upgrade, under which a licensee could acquire the right to deploy the newest version of a product at...
16Jun
Autodesk Settlement Agreements: Beware Restrictive Superseding License Terms
A software audit typically resolves in one of three ways: a dismissal, a settlement, or litigation. The most common path to resolution is a settlement between the parties for potential copyright infringement stemming from allegedly...
6Feb
Beware IBM Acquisitions and Product Transitions
IBM software licensing can be a very complex knot to untie. While IBM does develop new products in house, many of its most popular offerings (Cognos, Tivoli and ILOG, to name a few) are the...
10Nov
Your Adobe Software May Be Phoning Home Without Your Knowledge
Increasingly, software publishers are looking for new tools and processes to assist them in their license-enforcement programs. While such efforts are understandable to a degree, they sometimes can include methods that are somewhat dubious at...
