Software that can be run, distributed and modified without a fee.
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Organizational Software Use Policies
Alex Ozoemelem Obuh (Delta State University, Nigeria)
Copyright: © 2011
|Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-847-0.ch034
Abstract
This chapter discusses organizational software use policies. Specifically it gives the meaning of software use policy, software use policy components bothering on; general statement of policy, user education, budgeting and acquisition of software, registration, installation, storage and documentation of software, record keeping, software use, internet and shareware use, software audit and use survey, employee/user duty to report underlicensing, disciplinary measures on defaulters, corporate handling of employee questions regarding an organization’s software, need for software use policy in an organization, organizational software use policy formulation process, qualities of a software use policy, policy education and enforcement, problems of software use policy as well as future trends in organizational software use policy.