Open-source software developers make a valuable contribution to society and the economy through the high quality of their work, according to Demos. The UK-based think tank will publish a report on ...

Geek of the Week profiles the characters of Pacific Northwest tech, science, games, innovation and more. See the Geek of the Week archive for more. by Monica Nickelsburg on May 20, 2016 at 2:13 pm May ...

Australians working with open source software are urged to participate in an online census launched this week to discover the capabilities of the local industry. Organiser Jeff Waugh told ZDNet ...

No one is quite sure how to define fire, but everyone knows what is it. Open source software is the same. Like fire, we know what open source does, we know what open source looks like, and we know it ...

BUENOS AIRES — Last week, I touched down in Buenos Aires with my Ubuntu-powered Netbook in tow and started making calls and sending e-mails to get a handle on the tech scene in this New York-size ...

At Intel Innovation 2022, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sat down with Linus Torvalds, the "godfather of open source" who created the Linux operating system. Their wide-ranging conversation during the ...

Apple extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS X x86 kernel source code was published online. To sum up Apple’s objections, they felt I had given a ...

The weeks of December are flying by, and the new year is fast approaching. While it seems that sales begin earlier and earlier every year, some people (like me) put off gift buying until the last ...

Consumer electronics manufacturer Neuros Audio is tapping the open-source community to convert its upcoming portable media player from iPod road kill into a contender. This could be a stroke of genius ...

When you're starting off as an anthropologist, you aim is to explore a subculture your peers have yet to uncover, spending years living with the locals and learning their ways. That's what Gabriella ...

What obscure sort of person wants the freedom to compile the OS X kernel? I know this guy named Steve … Apple extended the courtesy of meeting with me one day after my column on the closing of the OS ...