There's been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting ...

As should be apparent to readers of ZDNet Talkback forums, I enjoy a good debate. My vision of the ideal forum would be a café table where people discuss controversial issues in an environment where ...

COMMENTARY--The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS for short, because we need more acronyms in the world) was last week. The conference was ...

Dave Dargo has written a thoughtful piece on one problem with proprietary software today: it spends too much time isolating itself as a product, rather than opening up itself and combining to create ...

Every once in awhile I come across a story that seems too incredible to be true. This week, I heard the exact same story, from two different enterprises, about the same proprietary vendor.

The “scrufffy guy coding away in his basement” archetype stopped applying to open-source software a while ago. It just doesn’t make sense when you consider that heavyweight vendors like IBM and ...

(Phys.org) —One may think that free software would be of enormous benefit to people in the towns and villages of the globe where the price of proprietary software is restrictively high. Such is not ...

Richard Stallman is, in essence, one of the most influential founders of Linux. In 1983, he developed the GNU operating system, now commonly referred to as Linux. This development spawned numerous ...

All construction companies, whether large or small, look for ways to streamline project management and make it more efficient. And with the number of technologies, software programs and mobile ...

The “scrufffy guy coding away in his basement” archetype stopped applying to open-source software a while ago. It just doesn’t make sense when you consider that heavyweight vendors like IBM and ...