FOSS presents a natural platform for building large distributed projects because of the low barrier to entry– open code, open standards, and freely-available robust, high-quality high-performance ...

Here are eight open source projects that can help boost your team’s collaboration, whether you are working in a distributed team, from your home office, or onsite in one of the newer hybrid workplaces ...

Linus Torvalds is a giant of open source. And the story of how he created Linux as a student (Just For Fun, as the title of his book would have it), and then ruled (somewhat grumpily) over the ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. is releasing its digital rights management (DRM) project under an open-source license, in hopes of driving a unified standard in the technology used to project digital media such ...

Government agencies create custom software when solutions aren't available off the shelf -- you simply won't find a welfare payment system down at the local office supply store. When government ...

While many proprietary project management tools are available on the market, open-source project management software provides an alternative for those who prefer to use free, customizable and ...

Tired of Trello and Asana paywalls? These 3 open-source, self-hosted tools give you boards, planning, and full control of ...

Developer Bertrand Quenin recently released an open-source project called "Interpreter" that aims to provide real-time translation for Japanese retro games. The tool can capture Japanese text ...

The division between proprietary software vendors and open-source providers is not as clear as some industry players perceive it to be. As more enterprises consider adopting open source technologies, ...