Sentence examples for restrictive software from inspiring English sources

Plus, some music publishers could gain an upper hand in a pricing dispute if Apple comes seeking permission to leave restrictive software on their music.

It was simply suffocated by Sony's relentlessly restrictive software.

Computers are fragile, unintuitive things — a hodge-podge of brittle, hardware and opaque, restrictive software.

Judge Reed added that there were far less restrictive methods like software filters that parents could use to control their children's Internet use.

On RCRD LBL, artists offer their music free, without restrictive digital rights management software.

The court upheld a lower court's temporary injunction against the act, but only on the narrow ground that less restrictive methods, like filtering software, might protect children more effectively than a criminal ban.

The need to install specialized applications and, in some cases, the restrictive nature of the software licenses, introduces hurdles to the sharing of molecular data.

Unlike proprietary (or closed-source) systems, which are typically distributed as 'executable' files under restrictive licenses, open source software projects make their source code freely available under a permissive license (Millington, 2012; Balch, et al., 2015).

"The E.P.O. has of late taken a more restrictive approach, issuing patents to software applications themselves," Mr. Bolkestein said.

First, it ruled that U.S. government regulations that barred the export of encryption software were unconstitutionally restrictive; second, it declared that software source code can be a form of protected free speech.

IN a climate where any regulation of the Internet in its commercial infancy is considered high treason, many law experts are dismayed at the tidal wave of restrictive legislation -- governing everything from software filters to digital copyrights and public domain information -- being drafted and enacted by states and the Federal Government.