The Diaspora project aims to create an open-source social network where the users own their data, not the network.
Kim Polese, a woman with a long history in open source, will receive the Symons Innovator Award from NCWIT next week.
A committee helping the Department of Veterans Affairs figure out how to modernize its core system unanimously recommends open source. Makes sense.
Yes. And no. And sort of. When it comes to the cutthroat world of mobile telephony, it's not quite that simple.
The U.S. federal agencies are evaluated and it appears open source is becoming de rigeur in U.S. government redesign
Microsoft OK'd its developers occasionally writing some GPL'd code. There's still that pesky antagonism with the Linux community, however.
As open source becomes more ubiquitous, misunderstanding about what it actually is seems to grow.
Open-source software is likely to remain in certain niches, former Red Hat VP Erik Troan says, but open source is increasingly becoming a necessary foundation.
Sure, Cisco had to give up ownership of the TIP, but no one ever said they had to open-source it. Here's why it makes so much sense.
Newly released, the textbook practices what it preaches: It's fluid, patchable and a group effort.
