In response to the June 27 Perspectives column by Charles Cooper, "": Your points on intellectual property are well-taken and pithy, but in the case of "open source" versus "proprietary" versus ...

In Debian Linux's 29-year history, there was one constant: Debian would be made entirely of free software. Debian also defined exactly what free software was in its Open Source Definition. Until now.

Google may develop the Android software that runs on millions of phones and tablets. But the company also releases the source code for most new builds of Android once it’s ready for public consumption ...

Fans of free and open source software (FOSS) may recall a report from Coverity last year that found open source code typically has fewer defects per thousand lines of code than proprietary software ...

In a move to build better relationships with certain classes of customer, Microsoft in 2001 began allowing them to look at portions of Windows source code. Several programs were set up, serving ...

Commentary - In today’s tech savvy business world, the ability to develop software quickly and effectively is essential to beating your competitor to the market. To reduce cycle time, software ...

Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, believes proprietary firmware and unverifiable firmware code poses a serious security threat to users and encourages hardware ...

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 ...

When most people think of software development, they visualize an engineer or coder creating every element, functionality and behavior in the software by themselves. Nowadays, with the advent of ...