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The Software Alliance, also known as Business Software Alliance or BSA, is a trade group of business software companies established in 1998. Its principal activity is trying to stop copyright infringement of software produced by its members. It is a member of the International Intellectual Property Alliance. Founded as the Business Software Alliance, it dropped "Business" from its name in October 2012, and styles itself "BSA | The Software Alliance". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Software AllianceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Software-Defined Radio-Based Internet of Things Communication Systems: An Application for the DASH7 Alliance ProtocolInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Global IT OutsourcingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Does technological modularity substitute for control? A study of alliance performance in software outsourcingCited 160 times
- Go sideways: Copyright infringementA closely related topic
- Go sideways: KeygenA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Does technological modularity substitute for control? A study of alliance performance in software outsourcing
ALLIANCE‐ROS: A Software Framework on ROS for Fault‐Tolerant and Cooperative Mobile Robots
Simulation-based workforce assignment in a multi-organizational social network for alliance-based software development
The Analysis of China New Energy Vehicle Industry Alliance Status Based on UCINET Software
Check Point announces security software alliance
Business Software Alliance: Industry protector or bully?
Strategic alliance announced for sales and specification software
Research on Decision of ANP-Based Enterprise Software Outsourcing Alliance
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
Global IT OutsourcingSundeep Sahay, Brian Nicholson · 2003
Partnering with MicrosoftTed Dinsmore · 2005
WikinomicsDon Tapscott · 2007
Global IT outsourcingSundeep Sahay, Brian Nicholson · 2003- 📕La campaña de la B.S.A. en BoliviaCarlos A. Peláez T. · 2001
Partnering with MicrosoftTed Dinsmore · 2005
Competition and Cooperation in Taiwan's Information Technology IndustryTeresa Shuk-ching Poon · 2002
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