If a company does get caught, it's too late to go out and buy the software, ... Otherwise there's no incentive for companies to deal with this on their own. We make it expensive for the companies that get caught.

The audit tool is really designed to tell you what software programs you have installed on you computers. In addition, you've also got to go to your file cabinet and make sure you have licenses.

The Business Software Alliance is offering business and organizations a special opportunity to ensure that all of their software is fully licensed.

We really are about trying to get business to simply add software management to their corporate checklist, ... Many companies are used to paying their taxes and obeying EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] laws. We're saying, 'Make sure you've got a system in place to manage software.'

We believe we're the first software company to do this.

IBM has decided that being a company committed to open standards, open document formats and free software means ultimately reassessing the patent process and its role in your relationship to your customers,