This comment analyzes the recent Supreme Court case, Microsoft v. AT&T and attacks the Court's reasoning behind its holding to limit patent protection of software. The paper examines the history of 271(f) with respect to software and questions whether a fundamental misunderstanding of software...

Software patents not only do no promote innovation, they instead reduce it. The U.S. Executive branch has recommended against recognizing software patents, and the Supreme Court has never rejected a test (its physical-transformation test) that would invalidate pure business method and software...

An important provision in each of the final judgments in the government's Microsoft antitrust case requires Microsoft "make available" to software developers the communications protocols that Windows client operating systems use to interoperate "natively" (that is, without adding software) with...

A common business strategy to promote product adoption in software industry is to provide a free trial version with limited functionalities of the commercial product to increase the installed user base. The increase of user base will lead to higher value of the software because of positive...

This paper tries to explore the mechanism of the choices of Open Source Software (OSS) Licenses. The benignant licensor choose between the restrictive and permissive licenses by considering how the commercial contributor reacts to the choice of OSS licenses to make the OSS project best supported...

Geert Hofstede presented statistical evidence purporting to identify intercultural co-operation and its importance for survival in his scholarship work "cultures and organizations". This article presents a study, which describes how differences in national culture can affect or influence the...

This article presents web programming and datavisualization implementation using Stata (do file and/or ado files). Stata datasets or excel files, so as text files (.txt) are used to create, fill in and format HTML and Java content. Programming, loops and automation can be smartly implemented to...

There has been much attention given to the promising benefits of open source software (OSS) for the development of the domestic software industries of developing countries. This study attempts to build a base for scholarly research on the subject of OSS in developing countries by reviewing the...

This research-in-progress aims to indentify the salient factors explaining adoption of open source software (OSS), as a technological innovation. The theoretical background of the paper is based on the technological innovation literature. We choose to focus on the open ERP case, as it is...

Understanding software design practice is critical to understanding modern information systems development. New developments in empirical software engineering, information systems design science and the interdisciplinary design literature combined with recent advances in process theory and...