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 ...

Hannah Dacayanan of UnitedLex discusses ways in which automated software composition analysis tools identify open source ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, SUSE announced that it is creating a hard fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and that it will develop and maintain an RHEL-compatible distribution. SUSE says that it will invest $10 ...

Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0 ...

An analyst for NASA recommended in a recent paper that the agency move some software development to an open-source model. The paper, published in late April and featured on Slashdot on Friday, argues ...