But unlike commercial software ventures, GNU programs are distributed with source code, the original programmer's instructions.

Apple and I.B.M. outlined the senior management team and board members for their software joint venture.

The Campbells recently moved to California from Oklahoma to start a software venture.

He said another software venture and politics were possibilities.

Motorola is emphasizing software ventures, in part, to make the company more flexible and less capital intensive.

The two companies are also creating software joint ventures intended to make computers easier to use and to greatly reduce the time it takes to program them.

But after the attack investors in the software venture pulled out.

He is the founder and chairman of the Blixseth Group and various entities associated with his timber, music production, real estate and software ventures.

In 1989, Douglas founded a software venture called EarthWatch Communications.

To top it off, it said the head of its software venture with I.B.M. was resigning.