Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

For over 30 years, open source software (OSS) has formed the backbone of the technology industry. Today, it is nearly impossible to find a computing device that does not utilize an open source ...

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 is an increasingly popular software development and distribution model that may spread further in the face of financial constraints in our current economy. With publicly available ...

When starting up, many organisations assume they need to invest in expensive software packages as a platform for their services. However, open source software may provide a cost-effective alternative.

It’s sometimes been said that the GPL is the best license for building an open source business. The reasoning is straightforward: The GPL has a reciprocal property such that those who embed and ...

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 ...

More than 10 years ago, the trend toward permissive licensing was so pronounced that RedMonk analyst James Governor declared, “Younger [developers] today are about POSS—post open source software.

A proposed revision of the GNU General Public License could have lasting effects on users and developers of open source software. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, ...