In a second case, brought against CyberSpy Software LLC, the FTC charged that CyberSpy marketed and sold " RemoteSpy " keylogger spyware to clients who would then secretly monitor unsuspecting consumers ’ computers.

Software can be developed for a variety of purposes, the three most common being to meet specific needs of a specific client / business ( the case with custom software ), to meet a perceived need of some set of potential users ( the case with commercial and open source software ), or for personal use ( e. g. a scientist may write software to automate a mundane task ).

The Free Software Foundation has not yet recognized this license as a free software license in the general case, but has done so for certain variations, such as that used for versions of Python before 1. 6b.

His book Object-Oriented Software Construction is widely considered to be the best work on presenting the case for OOP.

Software that is CPU agnostic can usually survive such a transition, unless it is agnostic by forking at startup, in which case, the software or the guest OS must be stopped before moving it, then restarted after the move.

By the time the case worked its way to court in 1990, Fox Software had released FoxPro and was busy increasing market share.

In this case, id Software supervised the development of the game as well as providing the Doom 3 engine, now referred to as ' id Tech 4 ' and released under the GNU General Public License on 22 November 2011, upon which it was built.

A general understanding of its meaning can be gleaned from studying the resulting case law, summarised in Software patents under the European Patent Convention.

The case was settled out of court in 1993 after the judge expressed doubt in the validity of USL's intellectual property, with Novell ( who by that time had bought USL ) and BSDi agreeing not to litigate further over the Berkeley Software Distribution ( BSD ), which would later develop into a range of BSD distributions, each tuned to its own specific audience's strengths and markets.

When memory and processing power became abundant, spell checking was performed in the background in an interactive way, such as has been the case with the Sector Software produced Spellbound program released in 1987 and Microsoft Word since Word 95.

Current case management software programs have progressed substantially as referenced by other commercial vendors such as New Dawn Technologies ( JustWare ), CourtView (), Software Unlimited, LawBase, and CSI Technology Group ( InfoShare ), competitors of Inslaw Inc.

The lawsuit, case 07-CV-8205 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York was filed on 20 September 2007 by the Software Freedom Law Center ( SFLC ) on behalf of Andersen and Landley against Monsoon Multimedia Inc., after BusyBox code was discovered in a firmware upgrade and attempts to contact the company had apparently failed.

On about Aug 03, 2010, BusyBox won triple damages of $ 90, 000 and lawyers ' costs and fees of $ 47, 865, and possession of " presumably a lot of high-def TVs " as infringing equipment in the lawsuit Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy, etal., the GPL infringement case noted in the paragraph above.

* Adobe Systems, Inc. v. Southern Software, Inc., a United States district court case regarding copyright protection for computer fonts

In November 2002 MSC Software reached a final agreement with the FTC to resolve an antitrust case against the company in connection with two acquisitions of rival CAE vendors, Universal Analytics, Inc. ( UAI ) and Computerized Structural Analysis & Research Corp. ( CSAR ).

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For a discussion of the inventive step test for " software patents " and " computer-implemented inventions " under the EPO case law, see also " Inventive step test " section in Software patents under the EPC.

Evidence to show that this is the case is often provided by a Software Requirements Specification ( SRS ) setting forth the intended uses and the needs that the ELN will meet ; one or more testing protocols that, when followed, demonstrate that the ELN meets the requirements of the specification and that the requirements are satisfied under worst-case conditions.

Software reverse engineering: A case study.

Ocean Software, Codemasters, System 3, Microprose and Domark developed titles for the system, but probably only because the games were compatible with the original C64, providing the titles with a commercial safety net in case the C64GS failed.

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Two case studies of open source software development: Apache and mozilla, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 11 ( 3 ), 1 – 38.

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In such a case, however, we would encourage the recipient country to get on with its programing task, supply it with substantial technical assistance in performing that task, and make it plain that an expansion or even a continuation of our assistance to the country's development was conditional upon programing progress being made.

cause on-site inspections to be made of promising projects, domestic and foreign, and, in the case of projects located in the United States, cooperate and participate in their development in instances in which the purposes of this Act will be served thereby ; ;

In any case, our Peace Corps personnel should be offered as technician helpers in development projects of the U.N. and other international agencies.

This is not, however, the case, and development is a term which we can apply to Hardy only in a very limited sense.

In the specific case of time diffusion, we must emphasize the significance of the earlier development of mistrust when it is combined with the inevitable time crisis experienced by most ( if not all ) adolescents in our society, and with the failure of the adolescent period to provide opportunities for developing trust.

Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language ( collectively forming the East South Slavic languages ), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article ( see Balkan language area ) and the lack of a verb infinitive ; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system.

During the Middle Bulgarian period, the language underwent dramatic changes, losing the Slavonic case system, but preserving the rich verb system ( while the development was exactly the opposite in other Slavic languages ) and developing a definite article.

In the case study, researchers argue for the inclusion of technical writers in the development process of software systems.

He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.

In the case of the CMM, for example, the basis for comparison would be the organizations ' software development processes.

Robert Silverberg said that Donald Wollheim was " one of the most significant figures in 20th century American science fiction publishing ", adding, " A plausible case could be made that he was the most significant figure — responsible in large measure for the development of the science fiction paperback, the science fiction anthology, and the whole post-Tolkien boom in fantasy fiction.

A prominent case can be seen in the Love Canal Homeowner ’ s association ( LCHA ); in this case a housing development was built on a site that had been used for toxic dumping by the Hooker Chemical Company.

The main aim of the County Administrative Board is to fulfil the goals set in national politics by the Parliament and the Government, to coordinate the interests and promote the development of the county, to establish regional goals and safeguard the due process of law in the handling of each case.

In any case the development of the camp system followed economic lines.

In some cases, hypertext may be detrimental to the development of appealing stories ( in the case of hypertext Gamebooks ), where ease of linking fragments may lead to non-cohesive or incomprehensible narratives.

In the development days, the six-cylinder Torana was reserved for motor racing, but research had shown that there was a business case for such a model.

These exclusive rights allow owners of intellectual property to benefit from the property they have created, providing a financial incentive for the creation of an investment in intellectual property, and, in case of patents, pay associated research and development costs.

In the first case, Agin discussed falsified results in the development of organic transistors: ' As far as understanding junk science is concerned, the important aspect is that both Bell Laboratories and the international physics community were fooled until someone noticed that noise records published by Jan Hendrik Schön in several papers were identical-which means physically impossible.

The Book of Acts portrays the disciples of John as eventually merging into the followers of Jesus ( Acts 18: 24-19: 6 ), a development not reported by the Gospels except for the early case of Andrew, Simon Peter's brother ( John 1: 35-42 ).

From late 1947 to May 1949, Fuchs gave Alexander Feklisov, his case officer, the principal theoretical outline for creating a hydrogen bomb and the initial drafts for its development as the work progressed in England and America.

Quantum field theory has driven the development of more sophisticated formulations of quantum mechanics, of which the one presented here is a simple special case.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

* Common law, ( case law development since colonial independence );