For a community founded on peace, love, and free-flowing code, the open source community can be a difficult crowd to crack. As new academic research details, newbie developers often struggle to ...

In-Depth. Cracking Open the Door to Open Source. Microsoft veers toward the light in its new approach to open source. By Carolyn April; 03/01/2007; When Bill Hilf came from IBM Corp. to join ...

OpenOffice.org Calc, the open source spreadsheet application, also has a built-in Space Invaders clone. You can launch it by typing =Game("StarWars") in the formula bar.

Open-source software has already penetrated the enterprise. Now it’s time for it to go to school. Why add academia to the mix of end users, developers and vendors working away on projects?

The open-source business model, where customers pay a subscription fee for ongoing services rather than for a software license, is a classic case of a "disruptive" technology, he says.

The open source RISC-V effort, with designs that support up to 128-bit memory addressing, has wide potential and is fully open source, and now has support from more recent members of the organization, ...

Mobile open source projects are still all about the enterprise. Andrew Aiken, a member of the advisory board for Funambol, which has an open source mobile platform, admitted as such to me today in ...

Open-Source Companies Are Sharing Their AI Free. Can They Crack OpenAI’s Dominance? Mistral AI, Hugging Face and others are betting they can stand up to OpenAI and big tech firms by making their ...

"This project is critical to allowing us to crack the public sector in the UK," said Taylor. The initiative, known as the Open Source Academy, is funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister ...