How Much for that Maintenance in the Window?

[The following is an excerpt from the Software Licensing Handbook. If Google never gets around to allowing you to "view inside" the book, I guess I'll have to do it here over time.]
Maintenance and support comes at a price, usually expressed as a percentage of the license fees paid in the license agreement. [...]

Strategic Sourcing

You read a contract because you are either buying or selling something. On the purchasing side of the transaction, many organizations have a procurement group (called “Purchasing” or “Procurement”, sometimes “Sourcing”) and many also have a contracting group (almost always just “Contracts”). And, within larger organizations, most believe that the combination of the [...]

NDAs

I don’t know why, but I’ve had a spate of NDAs cross my desk in the last week. Seemingly innocuous little documents, Non-Disclosure Agreements (sometimes also known as Confidentiality Agreements) are usually the starting point for all new contract negotiators.
Perhaps it’s because they’re generally short in length (usually no more than a page or [...]

Demo/Eval Agreements

Almost every large software purchase is predicated on the ability of the end user to review the product. When you’re buying something of that magnitude, it’s not unreasonable to have that testing time.
But vendors don’t just deposit software at even their most favorite customer’s facility without assurance that the software is going to have [...]

Copyright reform

Jonathan Lethem would like to see a world where each artist can decide, at the time of their creation’s release, the rights their customers/fans/etc will have with respects to using, copying, recycling, etc that creation. As part of this, he’s going to release certain film rights and other derivative work rights to his next [...]

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