undermines the assumption that just because software life would run on a computer that it must be reducible to a computer program …

This article analyzes the legitimacy of the software license as a institution of governance for computer programs. The … bases for the legitimacy of software licensing in general, the article argues that none of the grounds on which software … licensing in general rests are sound. With respect to open source software in particular, the article concludes that achieving a …

or software taken alone. Financial conditions, income growth and comparative advantage turn out to affect IT investment …, but we find that the determinants of hardware investment only partially overlap with those of software …

lowers the prices of network products. We develop a quantitative model for the desktop software business embodying these …

U.S. legal changes have made it easier to obtain patents on inventions that use software. Software patents have grown … known for strategic patenting; only 5 percent belong to software publishers. The very large increase in software patent … software patents during the 1990s. We find evidence that software patents substitute for R&D at the firm level; they are …

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 … greater scrutiny. This comment reviews six recent software patent eligibility cases, of which the court upheld software …

Spanish Abstract: Para las empresas de desarrollo de software el capital intelectual constituye su activo más valioso … trabajo describe el modelo de capacitación en la línea de desarrollo de software implementado en la empresa DESOFT. Se … Desoft software project. Actions for making a diagnosis and carrying on training are described. Also, the results for the …

expansión tecnológica. Se discute el papel del software libre y cómo los nuevos enfoques para el desarrollo de software pueden … shaping the objectives and goals for IT expansion. We discuss the role of open source software and how new approaches for … software development can turn the ambitious aims into reality …

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 … software exporting houses of the country along with secondary data from the different published sources were used. Having the …