This article examines software contracting through the lens of cybersecurity in order to examine a series of terms and … suppressing public knowledge about software security vulnerabilities. This is done by preventing research through anti … practices is obtained through the license. The practices addressed in Part II are that of making software difficult to uninstall …

The black-box model of software development outsourcing is prevalent and usually works well. The assumption embedded in …

become increasingly reliant on software, it is evermore important to understand functionality risk in ISD. In this study, we …

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, people in the software industry often said that the coming of patents would spell … the effects of patents on the software industry, this paper concludes, they have not killed it …

Rather than look to migration guides for business, or to barriers to adoption of Open Source Software, perhaps we … should look to understand what it is that organisations need from their software, it is not just the feature set of the … software feature set, but are interrelated to the needs and pre-existing conditions of the organisation. This paper looks to …

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 development productivity (Hypothesis 2). We test these hypotheses with …

'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 that Mann draws, namely: few software startups benefit from software …

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 judicial decisions in contributory copyright liability, in …

Open Source software, developed by a community of mostly volunteers programmers and available on the web free of charge …, offers important opportunities to software firms. The availability of such free productive factor, in fact, cuts the … source software depends mostly on some features of the incumbents' business models. In details, the probability to carry out …

. Here I outline three pivotal concerns among software engineers in using such systems …