Category: Legalese
The Romanian government is about to spend millions of euro on proprietary software
| June 30, 2009 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
In May 2009 the Romanian Government has announced its renewal of a framework software licence with Microsoft. The licence deal is worth 100 million euro for government agencies licenses for use between 2010 and 2012 as well as 58 million euro as the final payment for the 2004 – 2009 framework licence agreement. They are…
Is selling used microsoft office software legal?
| October 21, 2007 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese |
Looking through my blog’s web statistics I noticed the other day a Google search result that brought someone to the “Get Legal. Get OpenOffice.org.” campaign page on my blog. This is the right answer I think for the question posed by this visitor to the Google search engine. The exact question was: “Is selling used…
OpenDocument is now ISO 26300 standard
| May 3, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
Quoting from consortiuminfo.org: “The six month voting window for ISO/IEC adoption of the OASIS OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard closed on May 1, and at midnight (Geneva time) last night it was announced internally that ODF had been approved by the ISO members eligible and interested in casting a vote. The vote passed with broad participation…
Get Legal, Get OpenOffice.org – Campaign against software piracy
| May 3, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OpenOffice.org |
Press release One week after “World Intellectual Property Day”, the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project announces a new campaign: “Get legal – Get OpenOffice.org”. A new website – http://why.openoffice.org – explains how to escape from Microsoft Office licence costs and compliance worries – for good. Webmasters and bloggers worldwide are encouraged to display the campaign banner to…
Avoid pirated software
| May 1, 2006 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese, OPEN SOURCE WORLD |
There is a huge push on the software market at the moment for discouraging the usage of pirated software around the world and for detecting those who are using illegal software copies either for personal or for business purposes. There are even bounties for those reporting people and companies using illegal copies of software. Can…
Software Patents
| May 24, 2004 | Posted by cdriga under Legalese |
Defend the Parliament’s Directive against Bolkestein & Council Patent Lawyers!
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