If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open source and proprietary software each come with their own sets of pros and cons. Here are some to keep in mind when making software purchasing decisions. Open source software debuted 20 years ago ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

As part of my interview with Dean Drako of Barracuda Networks, he mentioned to me some survey work Barracuda has done. Barracuda talked to 228 enterprise customers and asked what advantages open ...

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.

Choosing open-source software products over proprietary ones offers many benefits to businesses. These software products are often cheaper and add higher value to companies than proprietary programs ...

If you create software, you have a choice between making it open source or proprietary. If you make it open source, anyone can use your code, within certain restrictions, to make their own programs.