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 ...

HONG KONG, Feb 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) - The open-source software movement has been an unprecedented driver of global innovation and productivity growth. By sharing code that runs databases, ...

Last week I promised to take a closer look at open source software, the open source software movement and how it might be useful to you as part of your Windows network. Let’s start with a definition: ...

As open source goes mainstream, big commercial software companies reap as much revenue as scrappy independents Has the open source software movement become a victim of its own success? A provocative ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Free and Open Source Stories Digital Archive Foundation (FOSSDA), a not-for-profit foundation to engage open source software pioneers and share their legacies, ...

Many of you, I know, have been wary of moving too quickly to embrace the open source software movement that Novell is espousing. You wonder about reliability, productivity, perhaps even potential ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

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Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...