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By the end of its first month, Zoom had 400,000 users. By 2013, Zoom had more than one million users. [10] After the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, by February 2020, Zoom had gained 2.22 million users in 2020 – more users than it amassed in the entirety of 2019. [11] [12] In March 2020, the Zoom app was downloaded 2.13 million times. [13] [14]
A per-seat license (or "named user license") [1] is a software license model based on the number of individual users, known as 'seats' in reference to them sitting in an office chair at a workstation, who have access to a digital service or product. For example, 50-user per-seat license would mean that up to 50 individual named users can access ...
Former logo (2014-2022) Zoom was founded by Eric Yuan, a former corporate vice president for Cisco Webex. [6] He left Cisco in April 2011 with 40 engineers to start a new company, [2] originally named Saasbee, Inc. [7] The company had trouble finding investors because many people thought the videotelephony market was already saturated. [7]
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.
Commercial apps are licensed to end users or businesses: in a legally binding agreement between the proprietor of the software (the "licensor") and the end user or business (the "licensee"), the licensor gives permission to the licensee to use the app under certain limitations, which are set forth in the license agreement.
An early example of an open-source project that did successfully re-license for license compatibility reasons is the Mozilla project and their Firefox browser. The source code of Netscape's Communicator 4.0 browser was originally released in 1998 under the Netscape Public License/Mozilla Public License [6] but was criticised by the FSF and OSI for being incompatible.
In software licensing, volume licensing is the practice of using one license to authorize software on a large number of computers and/or for a large number of users. . Customers of such licensing schemes are typically business, governmental or educational institutions, with prices for volume licensing varying depending on the type, quantity and applicable subscripti
Traditionally, software was distributed in the form of binary object code that could not be understood or modified by the user, [9] but could be downloaded and run. The user bought a perpetual license to use a particular version of the software. [14]