Open-source software is a great option if you’re looking to avoid paid tools from giant corporations, but not all open-source software are created equally. There are many reasons you might opt to use ...

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 ...

Open source looks eerily like proprietary software in building products, not solutions, for end customers. We need to open up more of our software to allow for integration between projects. Dave Dargo ...

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 ...

Supply chain security is rapidly emerging as a material risk for enterprise software buyers. Yet, despite best efforts from regulators to hold software publishers accountable, enterprise buyers ...

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 ...

We have been living through another cold war. Not geo-political — digital. Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with ...

If you create software, you have a choice between making it open source or proprietary. If you make it open source, anyone can use your code, within certain restrictions, to make their own programs.

Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for ...

As you can imagine I get asked by all types of companies and individuals to look at software. In fact, I probably get more requests to look at software than a lot of people even get email. And there's ...