Saturday, August 21, 2004

Pricing a Software Product Pricing a Software Product Posted by michael on Friday August 20, @02:08PM from the free-for-all dept. prostoalex writes "Eric Sink from SourceGear shares his experience on software pricing. Whether you're developing open-source or proprietary software, the money has to come into the business in some form, and the article suggests several strategies as well as the pitfalls for managing software pricing. Sink claims it's tough to compete on price, dangerous to run seasonal promotions and almost impossible to avoid criticism on being over-priced." [Slashdot:] 10:31:24 AM    comment []  trackback []

Microsoft Patents sudo Microsoft Patents sudo Posted by michael on Friday August 20, @10:00PM from the you're-just-mad-you-didn't-think-of-it-first dept. Jimmy O Regan writes "Justin Mason (of SpamAssassin fame) has this blog entry: US Patent 6,775,781, filed by Microsoft, is a patent on the concept of 'a process configured to run under an administrative privilege level' which, based on authorization information 'in a data store', may perform actions at administrative privilege on behalf of a 'user process'."  [Slashdot:] Another bad patent.  Sigh, you'd think PTO would get the expertise it needs for these, or MSFt would know better. 10:11:35 AM    comment []  trackback []