More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for ...

Open source code was very much on the periphery, providing a way of building some of the then bleeding edge applications that were starting to appear. Now, of course, it is reckoned that there is ...

More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for ...

Famously, through the '90s and into the aughts, Microsoft quarantined itself from the world of open source software. In 2001, chief exec Steve Ballmer referred to Linux -- the granddaddy of open ...

More and more open-source developers these days are employees of companies, paid to work on open-source projects, rather than independent programmers doing it for fun. The change raises issues for ...