Authorization is irksome. For a start, the Brits spell licensing as licencing… and a great number of people mispronounce the word patent as “pay-tunt”, when of course it should be “pah-tent”, whichever side of the pond you are on. But in a world of increasingly virtualized service-based technologies, we need a global economy where licensing, governing authority, patents, copyrights, permits and protections need to be painfully clear and agreed at all times.
