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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some findings of that survey were presented at the first Splash open source conference held in Sydney last week, which brought together international open source organisations such as Ingres, ...

Open-source software companies are missing out on a relatively inexpensive way to fight concerns about patent liability, according to an attorney who spoke at an open-source conference in San ...

It's not that companies aren't interested in his ideas for revolutionizing computing and saving money by embracing nonproprietary software with shared code. Rather, his reputation as a gadfly at ...