A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, reads, “The medium is the message.” It refers to the fact that the interpretation, value and meaning of ...

Long gone are the days when you would buy your software on a disk and your company's IT administrators were tasked with installing and maintaining that software without the help of the automatic ...

I had dinner with a friend the other night. He works at a large retailer on the IT side and was telling me why he and his company are reluctant to embrace GNU General Public License (GPL)-licensed ...

The EU Commission Thursday adopted new rules for open-source software distribution. The move is intended to facilitate the Commission’s transmission to make its software source code publicly ...

IT asset management needs to keep up. Provided byThoughtworks Early 2022 has brought with it an unusually high level of commotion in the open-source community, largely focused on the economics of ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scarf, the company helping open-source developers measure their software’s usage and connect with their commercial end-users, today announced $5.3 million in additional ...

Despite the premise of open source software distribution being “free,” multibillion dollar companies like RedHat, MongoDB, GitLab and Elastic have already broken ground building profitable businesses ...

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 ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

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 ...