When selecting software for your business, you may have the option of choosing from open-source solutions or proprietary software. Traditionally, proprietary software has been a popular choice due to ...

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Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

Dr. Joseph Castle is the advisor for strategic relationships and open-source technologies at SAS after serving more than 20 years in the U.S. federal government. He spent time at the White House ...

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: ...

John Ellis is the President and Head of Product for Codethink, a world-class provider of critical, high-performance software projects. Open-source software is publicly available software developed and ...

The software maker announces a new proprietary version of SourceForge, the collaborative programming software that now is the centerpiece of the company's survival strategy. Stephen Shankland worked ...

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...

The company revises its business plan after posting a quarterly loss of $290 million on revenue of $16 million. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital ...