If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

There's been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting ...

When selecting software for your business, you may have the option of choosing from open-source solutions or proprietary software. Traditionally, proprietary software has been a popular choice due to ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

The International Telecommunications Union's World Summit on the Information Society (or WSIS for short, because we need more acronyms in the world) was last week. The conference was intended as a ...

Why do companies opt for proprietary software over open source? The answer may surprise you. First, open source’s price tag is clearly an important driver. Yes, open source is much more than free, but ...

Talking with a customer today left a bad aftertaste in my mouth for how the proprietary software model encourages vendors to treat customers with shabby disdain. So, I unleash. Then reload. Every once ...

Open source and proprietary software each come with their own sets of pros and cons. Here are some to keep in mind when making software purchasing decisions. Open source software debuted 20 years ago ...

(Phys.org) —One may think that free software would be of enormous benefit to people in the towns and villages of the globe where the price of proprietary software is restrictively high. Such is not ...