A team of Rice University engineers has launched a first-of-its-kind, open-source software that constructs and uses personalized computer models of how individual patients move to optimize treatments ...

The practice of developing publicly accessible technologies and preventing monopolies of privately-owned, closed-source infrastructure was a pivotal technological movement in the 1990s and 2000s. The ...

(TNS) — When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1980, the company couldn’t have known that the machine would ignite a revolution. The printer jammed. And ...

Last week I promised to take a closer look at open source software, the open source software movement and how it might be useful to you as part of your Windows network. Let’s start with a definition: ...

Imagine designing a super-fun game which you can play because you possess the secret rules to it, a.k.a. the code. Now, what if you were to tell your friends these “rules,” and they could start adding ...

Over the last 40 years, the open-source software (OSS) movement has been a moving target for detractors and supporters. Its free-to-distribute code philosophy competed against proprietary software to ...

Look no further than the recent forkings of Redis and Terraform to see where the true power lies in the land of open source. A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

Following this week's unveiling of the proposed GNU General Public License Version 3 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Free Software Foundation President and Founder Richard Stallman ...

What just happened? A $3 billion startup called Sentry is backing a new licensing model aimed at striking a balance between open-source and proprietary software. Dubbed "fair source," this model seeks ...

Open source software has come a long way since its early days in the 1950s and 1960s, when source code was freely shared alongside the machines it ran on, fostering a collaborative and open ...

Microsoft must take an approach that favors and embraces the diversity of open source software or face oblivion, David Stutz, a departing Microsoft executive, wrote in his farewell letter to the ...