IT executives from a dozen states will meet in Oregon this week to take a close look at open source software and how a collaborative approach to application development could help them cut costs and ...

Every year, on the first weekend of February, a certain Brussels university campus livens up. There, you will find enthusiasts of open-source software and hardware alike, arriving from different ...

Open-source software is gaining ground in Europe and the developing world, with users attracted by lower costs and accessibility, according to a recent study and industry observers. A study of 12 ...

WASHINGTON — A group of free software advocates plan to protest at a Washington conference designed to promote open source and free software to governments because a representative from Microsoft is ...

Doing his best impersonation of a fox in the chicken coop who means no harm to the chickens, Microsoft’s Stuart McKee spoke at an open source conference in San Francisco today delivering a message of ...

Open-source software is gaining ground in Europe and the developing world, with users attracted by lower costs and accessibility, according to a recent study and industry observers. A study of 12 ...

Decentralization and open-source software are two of Bitcoin’s core tenets, yet industry conferences tend to be centralized affairs, typically funded, sponsored, planned and coordinated by companies ...

Publicly available code has fewer security holes because more programmers work on the free programs than the number writing proprietary programs for commercial firms. Open source software, freely ...

SAN DIEGO — Despite recent changes by Microsoft Corp. to its licensing strategy for some software, the debate between commercial software developers and the open-source community continued to rage on ...

It's not that companies aren't interested in his ideas for revolutionizing computing and saving money by embracing nonproprietary software with shared code. Rather, his reputation as a gadfly at ...

About a year ago, Google announced its Assured Open Source Software (Assured OSS) service, a service that helps developers defend against supply chain security attacks by regularly scanning and ...