Microsoft's licensing is all so ridiculously complicated that they offer a full day course in it! Software licenses should take up no more space than Steve's daily editorial.

Something that (used to be) a requirement for journalists also applies here: confirm the answer from multiple sources before proceeding!

The issue here is the headline should read "Can Large Corporations Be Trusted?", and then your answer about whether restrictive, single-source App Stores are good or bad would be obvious.

The problem with most vendor certifications is that they seem to be written more by the marketing department than the technical staff. You have to know one set of...

I see two separate issues here:

One - non-compete as part of a business sale - this you are negotiating as part of the price of the business, and the buyer...

Why would anyone think it could possibly be OK not to fix manufacturers defects in a product?

Does anyone know of any products like this affordable for a small software developer? I don't need to worry about back accounts or social security numbers, just masking the...

Steve,

It's not the price of time, it's the price of stupidity and greed. Microsoft changes it's file formats for the sole purpose of keeping other programs from reading them,...