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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...