The fun and games in the world of commercial open source software never stop. In the latest episodes of a long-winding saga, two more commercial open source vendors, Elastic and Grafana, changed their ...

The world of open-source software is about to go through another tectonic change. But unlike earlier changes brought about by corporate acquisitions, this time it’s thanks to the growing series of ...

OK, I'll get back to some more serious points in a moment, but I couldn't help commenting on a jaw-dropping statement from SaaS blogger Bob Warfield. It comes in the middle of an interview with Concur ...

Open-source software gets a lot of credit for its role in channeling innovation, but it's really open-source economics that should get the credit, according to Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst. Matt Asay ...

Reducing software piracy in the United States by just 10 percentage points over the next four years could generate more than 32,000 new jobs, $41 billion in economic growth, and $7 billion in tax ...

Thomas Ryd is CEO & cofounder of Northern.tech, a device lifecycle management leader with a mission to secure the world's connected devices. Over the past decade, industries shifted from ...

According to a recent report by Forrester Research, 56 percent of Global 2500 IT executives surveyed said their companies were using open-source software--that is, software in which the source code is ...

This course is a "survey" of software used by professional economists and professionals in other disciplines to study empirical phenomena. The course is a "survey" because we will not be going into ...