A famous quote from Marshall McLuhan’s book, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Ma n, reads, “The medium is the message.” It refers to the fact that the interpretation, value and meaning of ...

Long gone are the days when you would buy your software on a disk and your company's IT administrators were tasked with installing and maintaining that software without the help of the automatic ...

The EU Commission Thursday adopted new rules for open-source software distribution. The move is intended to facilitate the Commission’s transmission to make its software source code publicly ...

Red Hat subsidiary today launched an initiative called Project Lightwell to improve the security of open-source projects.

I had dinner with a friend the other night. He works at a large retailer on the IT side and was telling me why he and his company are reluctant to embrace GNU General Public License (GPL)-licensed ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scarf, the company helping open-source developers measure their software’s usage and connect with their commercial end-users, today announced $5.3 million in additional ...

The Steam Deck was a revolution in mobile gaming for PC, but it was also one for a reason most people weren't aware of: bringing Linux to the masses. The Steam Deck runs SteamOS, its own custom ...

Money may not grow on trees, but it does grow in GitHub repos. Open source projects produce the most valuable and sophisticated software on the planet, free for the taking, dramatically lowering the ...

Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARNet) has launched a major upgrade of its mirror service that provides an Australian site from which users can download the most popular open source ...