Some free software advocates use the term Free and Open Source Software ( FOSS ) as an inclusive compromise, drawing on both philosophies to bring both free software advocates and open source software advocates together to work on projects with more cohesion.

Some Id Software titles ported to Linux are Doom ( the first Id Software game to be ported ), Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Doom 3, Quake 4, and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

Some of the probably largest ones are Telenor, Opera Software, Statnett, Netcom and Ementor.

Some authors – see, for example, Creating a Software Engineering Culture by Karl E. Wiegers – have stressed the importance of the social and political aspects of the work climate as determinants of the effectiveness of individual programmers and the project team as a whole.

Some are home-grown while others are modeled after mainstream FOSS licenses such as Berkeley Software Distribution (“ BSD ”), Apache, MIT-style ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology ), or GNU General Public License (“ GPL ”).

Some of the " more prominent organizations " involved in OSS development include the Apache Software Foundation, creators of the Apache web server ; a loose affiliation of developers headed by Linus Torvalds, creators of the Linux operating system kernel ; the Eclipse Foundation, home of the Eclipse software development platform ; the Debian Project, creators of the influential Debian GNU / Linux distribution ;

Some of the Atria developers had worked on an earlier system: DSEE ( Domain Software Engineering Environment ) from Apollo Computer.

Some of the leading vendors are IBM, Oracle, OpenText Corporation ( formerly Vignette Corporation ), JBoss, and Software AG.

Some, like the Entertainment Software Rating Board ( ESRB ) are composed of members of the industry themselves, while others, like Pan European Game Information ( PEGI ), are government-backed.

Some believe that HAVA may represent an effort to help large electronic voting systems vendors such as Premier Election Solutions ( formerly Diebold Election Systems ), Election Systems & Software, and Sequoia Voting Systems make millions of dollars throughout the country in selling electronic voting devices.

Some of the major countries / districts that provide such services are India ( Full Spectrum Services ), Mexico ( Full Spectrum Services ), Ukraine ( Programming and R & D ), Bolivia ( Web & Software Programming, Game Development, IT Support, Network Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Service ), Brazil ( Web & Software Programming, Game Development, IT Support, Network Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Service ), Argentina ( Full Spectrum Services ), Indonesia ( Programming, R & D, IT Support, Data Entry, Customer Support ), China ( Programming, Data Entry, Customer Support, F & A ), Philippines ( Customer Support, IT Support, Programming, Animation, Transcription ), Russia ( Programming and R & D ), Pakistan ( Full Spectrum Services ), Panama ( Programming, Customer Support ), Nepal ( Programming, Customer Support ), Bangladesh ( Web & Software Programming, Game Development, IT Support, Network Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Service ), Bulgaria ( Programming and R & D ), Belarus ( Programming, R & D ), Romania ( Programming and IT ), the Philippines ( Programming, R & D, Data Entry and Customer Support, Egypt ( Customer Support and Programming ), Malaysia ( Customer Support and R & D ), Mauritius ( ITO and BPO ), Republic of Macedonia ( Web Software, Mobile Software, Game Development, Network Solutions, Offshore Outsourcing Service, R & D ) and many others.

Some of the B32 Software staff in Blue Ash moved to Transoft's Atlanta, Georgia office.

Some of the id Software staff have revealed that they were impressed by some of the WADs ; John D. Carmack later said the following about a Star Wars-themed modification:

Some reviewers sang high praises for Ascendancy upon release-the game won the Codie Award for Best Strategy Software in 1996, while Next Generation Magazine called Ascendancy " one of the best space-strategy sims " and said " the variety of species will give you hours of replay value.

; ArrayShield's Array-Card Hardware token and Software token: Some of these security tokens are available both in hardware token and software token format.

Some brands associated with Pinnacle Software include FIFA, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia.

Some of the major changes in CMMI V1. 3 are the support of Agile Software Development, improvements to high maturity practices and alignment of the representation ( staged and continuous ).

Some staff members left Technosoft to start the game development companies Arsys Software in 1985 ( founded by Katsunori Yoshimura, creator of Thunder Force and Plazma Line ) and CAProduction in 1993.

Some developers have continued in the fashion of id Software, and refer to this cheat as " clipping " even when it only turns off collision detection, perhaps due to user familiarity with id's code.

The Apache Software Foundation ( ASF ) is a non-profit corporation ( classified as 501 ( c )( 3 ) in the United States ) to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server.

* Apache Software License, an open-source license for software

Borland Software Corporation is a software company first headquartered in Scotts Valley, California, then in Cupertino, California, and finally in Austin, Texas.

At the same time they announced the planned acquisition of Segue Software, a maker of software test and quality tools, in order to concentrate on Application Lifecycle Management ( ALM ).

** Software bug, a software defect

Software that is not distributed can use the Sleepycat License, as can free and open source software.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

Software is also sometimes used in a more narrow sense, meaning application software only.

The Supreme Court decision made it possible to value software, and also purchase Software patents.

Software quality is very important, especially for commercial and system software like Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows and Linux.

Software can be patented in some but not all countries ; however, software patents can be controversial in the software industry with many people holding different views about it.

Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

Non-profit software organizations include the Free Software Foundation, GNU Project and Mozilla Foundation.

Software standard organizations like the W3C, IETF develop software standards so that most software can interoperate through standards such as XML, HTML, HTTP or FTP.

* Software cracking, the defeating of software copy protection

* NJStar Software Corp. ( 南极星 Nanjixing ): Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language software solutions for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems.

* CDC Software, a computer software company

The Voluntary Content Rating ( VCR ) system was devised by Solid Oak Software for their CYBERsitter filtering software, as an alternative to the PICS system, which some critics deemed too complex.

Most important of these is Software in the Public Interest, the owner of the Debian trademark and umbrella organization for various other community free software projects.

He is the founder of the software companies Living Videotext and Userland Software, a former contributing editor for the Web magazine HotWired, the author of the Scripting News weblog, a former research fellow at Harvard Law School, and current visiting scholar at New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

BIND was first released with Berkeley Software Distribution 4. 3BSD, and as such, it is free and open source software.

* Software design pattern, a standard solution to common problems in software design.

The Software office will also be responsible for " software systems technology, machine intelligence and software engineering.