Open Source / GPL

Larry Constantine asks, If most commercial software isn't any good, why not use a more communal approach?

As you read this, countless programmers worldwide are collaborating to write,…

IBM Philippines and the National Disaster Coordinating Council, came together in Guinsaugon to try out new equipment, as well as the Sahana open source disaster management system that IBM donated…

Given the jaw-dropping occurrences in the open source world last year (Red Hat’s acquisition of JBoss, Oracle’s announcement of “Unbreakable Linux,” and Novell’s patent pact with Microsoft, to…

The Free Culture Foundation was launched today to promote and protect cultural freedoms. The Foundation provides an accessible, independent introduction to the free culture movement, now a global…

An open source wireless tracking system for following people around buildings got its first public use last week at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin.

The creators of the…

Korea's fifth-largest city, with a population of 1.4 million, has completed the first phase of its open source adoption strategy.

Gwangju Metropolitan City, which counts auto manufacturing…

Microsoft Corp. has two years in which to convince Amsterdam city authorities that it can offer better value for money on the desktop than open source alternatives.

The city will conduct…

The development of vital computer systems to be used and maintained for decades in aerospace and automobile construction is preconditioned on development tools the specifications of which elude…

I couldn't have an easier time playing fortune-teller this year. While some segments of the IT market might see the future as a wide-open plain, for the open source community, 2007 is shaping up…

Open-source software in schools will be the driving force for Gordon Brown’s proposed ‘Knowledge Economy’, it was claimed today.

The claim comes from Bluefountain, after massive cross-party…