Open Source / GPL

The idea that companies will succeed in the 21st century by drawing in the brightest minds from everywhere, not just within their own four walls, has gathered momentum over the last decade.

OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, today announced the availability of OpenLogic Exchange (OLEX) Enterprise…

Environment Canada is using an open source model for its Model of the Environment and Temperature of Roads (METRo) forecasting system, in an effort to help provide the community of meteorologists…

"Yesterday we had an open source event in BT's auditorium called "Open source - open for business". If you'll excuse the rather corporate-sounding title, it was actually a really cool day. There…

ActiveState Software released Open Komodo, an open source platform for building development environments based on the award-winning Komodo® IDE, a multi-platform, multi-language IDE for dynamic…

While privacy and open society advocates have been concerned about the dominance of Google’s search engine for the past several years, most of us are just beginning to comprehend Facebook’s…

A group that was set up to promote the Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) is abandoning its support of that file format in favor of a set of specifications developed by the World…

Would open source software get more doctors and hospitals online faster with systems that are compatible? I had a very interesting series of conversations last week that touched on this and the…

The New York Times likes open source -- so much so that, as it gradually moves more of its print operations online, it is nurturing a Web development team that has released two of its own open…

Yesterday, Buffalo Technology and the German-based New Media Net published a press release claiming that from now on, you can buy Buffalo’s WHR-HP-G54 Router with the open source DD-WRT firmware.…