COMMENTARY--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 ...

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 ...

Explore proprietary technology. Learn about its types, benefits, and real-world examples to understand how it offers businesses a competitive advantage.

Best of the blogs: With the momentum firmly shifted in favor of open source proprietary software is running scared, Matt Asay writes. Part of the reason is risk. Proprietary vendors, he argues, hold ...

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 makes the technology world go ’round, forming as much as 90% of the modern software stack via frameworks; libraries; databases; operating systems; and countless stand-alone applications.

The spread of free software and the subsequent promotion of its use by governments throughout the world is a fascinating phenomenon. Many countries currently are considering laws in which free ...

The concept of open-source software (OSS) is to share the source code for free with future users. So what happens when companies use the free code of others to develop their own code? Scott Thiel ...

Struggling with software that doesn’t quite fit your needs can be incredibly frustrating. Off-the-shelf solutions often fall short, leaving you to adapt your processes to the software, rather than the ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...