According to Brooks' law for software development projects "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." Building on Brooks' law, we argue that complexity increases the maximum team size in software development projects (Hypothesis 1), and that maximum team size decreases software...

'Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?' by Ronald J. Mann contributes empirical evidence to our understanding of how software startups use patents. However, a close examination of the actual empirical findings in this paper points to rather different conclusions than those...

This paper examines the current legal treatment of software innovation. It argues that recent judicial standards for the regulation of software innovation do not adequately protect innovation. It presents an original standard for the regulation of software innovation, one intended to guide...

This article analyzes the legitimacy of the software license as a institution of governance for computer programs. The question of the open source license is used as a starting point. Having conducted a broader inquiry into the several possible bases for the legitimacy of software licensing in...

For more than forty years, patent attorneys, software engineers, examiners, and judges have debated the patent eligibility of software. For most of the 1980s and 90s, the USPTO has viewed software as generally patent-eligible subject matter. Starting with the State Street v. Signature Financial...

Spanish Abstract: Para las empresas de desarrollo de software el capital intelectual constituye su activo más valioso, es por ello que la continua formación de sus recursos humanos, resulta imprescindible para lograr el éxito. El presente trabajo describe el modelo de capacitación en la...

Spanish Abstract: Los gobiernos se enfrentan a una gran presión desde todas las direcciones: las restricciones presupuestarias, las expectativas de los ciudadanos, las tendencias demográficas, la competencia local – por nombrar algunos. El gobierno electrónico es considerado una herramienta...

Many developing countries are involved in software exports, most remarkably India, Ireland and Israel. Jordan, Argentina, and Sri Lanka are some of the aspirant countries who are giving efforts to enter the global software marketplace by developing different strategies. Using the success...

The decision of Kitchin J in Astron Clinica Ltd v Comptroller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks addresses the important issue of whether claims to computer programs on suitable storage media are prohibited by Article 52(2) & (3) of the European Patent Convention 1973 (EPC) and the UK...

As the quality of open source software increased dramatically over the last decade and important commercial producers, as IBM, Oracle, Novell and also Microsoft are becoming part of the movement, it is important to review and determine the current state in open source software development. This...