No one wants to wait to use a tool that could help their work. They don't want to jump through hoops or deal with company bureaucracy, especially if the tool is reputable and clearly meets industry ...

Adrian Edwards is an open book. Every week, the computer science student can be found in RIT’s SHED working on a free and open source software (FOSS) project that could improve the campus and the ...

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 software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Dirk-Peter van-Leeuwen is the CEO of SUSE, a global leader in innovative, reliable and secure enterprise open source solutions. Monoculture has drawbacks—not just in agriculture but also in IT.

My Oct. 24 column, “Open Source Citizenship,” attracted more than the usual amount of e-mail and Weblog commentary. Lots of people are thinking about whether, and how, to coordinate in-house ...