In a splashy announcement Thursday, Microsoft Corp. touted new efforts to improve the interoperability of its key software products with open-source projects and products from other vendors. Some in ...

In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

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 ...

Open-source software may well be the greatest “public good” the market economy has ever produced. What it shows is the power of voluntary social cooperation. Standard neoclassical economic theory ...

Open-source software powers the majority of today’s businesses. An estimated 70% to 90% of modern software solutions use a code base made up of open-source components, according to 2022 data from the ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

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 ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

For the longest time, open-source was nothing more than a buzzword rattling around the brains of technologists and fans of the Linux operating system. Flash forward a decade or so and open-source has ...