Hackers have shaken the free-software movement that once symbolized the Web’s idealism. Several high-profile attacks in recent months exploited security flaws found in the “open-source ...

The Open Source Movement is based on an ideology. To me, it seems like a (non-theistic) religion. We have cannon texts, inspiring but strange thought-leaders, a revolutionary view of what ought to ...

The survey found that 20 years into the movement, 55 per cent of Canadian developers are actively participating in an open source project, and while that may seem fairly significant more than 60 ...

More than 20 years after its inception, the open source software movement is still going strong. More than 80% of the world’s smartphones run on Android, an operating system built on the open ...

Inspired by the success of the open-source software movement, a group of technology enthusiasts is looking to unite the fragmented open-source hardware community in an effort to promote hardware ...

A seemingly minor legal victory in the US for a physics professor interested in open-source software and model trains looks like becoming a turning point for the 'free' software movement. The ...

The open source software movement grew out of the related, but separate, "free software" movement. In 1983, Richard Stallman, at the time a programmer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ...

The global rise of the Open Source movement is less a tale of software innovation than a story about how new markets for collaboration can create new value in the marketplace. When people hear the ...

But work still needs to be done, as the open-source hardware movement isn’t as visible as the open-source software movement, said Michael Weinberg, a staff attorney at Public Knowledge, which is ...