Mike McQuaid's OSS Resistance movement is challenging the assumption that maintaining critical open source infrastructure ...

(TNS) — When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. The printer jammed. And ...

Over the last 40 years, the open-source software (OSS) movement has been a moving target for detractors and supporters. Its free-to-distribute code philosophy competed against proprietary software to ...

Two recent events should give for-profit companies new reasons to re-evaluate the ways in which they use open source software as well as the extent to which they use it. These events are: (1) the ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Microsoft must take an approach that favors and embraces the diversity of open source software or face oblivion, David Stutz, a departing Microsoft executive, wrote in his farewell letter to the ...

What just happened? A $3 billion startup called Sentry is backing a new licensing model aimed at striking a balance between open-source and proprietary software. Dubbed "fair source," this model seeks ...

We list the best open source software, to make it simple and easy to install multi-purpose software at no extra cost to you or your business. Open source software is any kind of program that anyone in ...