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Chappelle’s Show returns to Netflix now that Dave got paid

The Verge

Netflix began airing Chappelle’s Show on November 1st but pulled it on November 24th after the comedian complained that Comedy Central’s owner ViacomCBS licensed the show without his approval. “I And I got my license back, and I got my show back, and they paid me millions of dollars. View this post on Instagram. And I got my name back.

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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

Computerworld Vertical IT

Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need. Early on, Microsoft had a tiered program where better partners were called gold partners, and the lesser partners were called silver and bronze.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. At issue were Autonomy’s sales of hardware and its sales of software licenses to value-added resellers rather than to end customers.

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Ireland’s status as tax haven for tech firms like Google, Facebook, and Apple is ending

The Verge

Companies typically create Irish subsidiaries of their companies that license their intellectual property, on which the subsidiary pays royalties. Facebook established its international headquarters in Dublin in 2008 , and Google opened its European headquarters in Ireland in 2003.

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Fraunhofer’s new H.266 codec promises to cut the cost of streaming 4K video in half

The Verge

That's why AVC, the predecessor to HEVC, still remains the more dominant standard, despite first releasing back in 2003. With VVC, Fraunhofer says you can get something far better than AVC and HEVC without any of the licensing headaches. VVC promises to use half the data as HEVC to stream a 90-minute 4K video.

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Mick's IT Blogs: Trimble Sketchup Installation Script

Mick's IT Blog

SMS 2003 WQL Compatibility in SCCM. SMS 2003 WQL Compatibility in SCCM. This script will install Trimble Sketchup 8, formerly Google Sketchup, with a network license on either an x86 or x64 machine that does not have Sketchup 8 installed. The first thing you want to do is to create a network license file. 27 July 2012.

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This could be the next big game for Microsoft’s Xbox platform

GeekWire

Bethesda Game Studios has primarily worked on games in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series since it was spun off into its own division in 2001; its first project as Bethesda Game Studios was 2003’s Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. Before then, Bethesda was all in on Elder Scrolls and the occasional licensed game.