Leveraging Free and Open-Source Software on the battlefield. DOD has witnessed the pivotal role technology plays on the modern battlefield and felt the sting of relying on software that fails to meet ...

Responding to student interest and a growing industry demand for workers with such skills, Rochester Institute of Technology is launching the nation’s first interdisciplinary minor in free and open ...

Free and Open Source (FOSS) has become an integral part of commercial software development, but the extent of the dependency is astonishing: in his presentation at the seventh FOSS Backstage ...

Free and Open Source Software – FOSS – is becoming more widely used by developers and engineers. Broadly speaking, in order to be FOSS, software will be distributed freely for anyone to view, use, ...

Given the price of 'industry standard' proprietary software from Adobe, Microsoft and other vendors, it's no surprise that people often look to free and open-source software (FOSS) for a ...

Microsoft's recent survey proclaimed nearly half the population believe it is ok to use pirated software for personal use. This diminishes the argument by Linux advocates that you can use their ...

There's been some back and forth between various members of the technical press about whether the open source movement has lost its idealism, and the relative virtues of shunning or accepting ...

The fourth international conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSSK4) which concluded here on Thursday has proposed the application of free software in the development of monitoring, ...

The organisation has currently handed over these demands to the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Dravida Munnetra Khazhagam (DMK), Communist Party of India, and Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi. It ...

Mirza Ghalib, the great poet of 19th century Delhi and one of the greatest poets in history, would have liked the idea of Open Source software. A couplet Mirza Ghalib wrote is indicative: Ghalib’s ...