I received an e-mail from Simon Romanski, director of information systems at Fulfillment America, asking about the nature of open source software and its intersection with commercialism. Open ...

Even much of the community open-source code is actually written by corporate-sponsored employees to serve commercial interests (whether directly or indirectly).

Open-source software versus commercial software has long been on the brink of going nuclear, fought in the shadows with enormous stakes and conflicting ideologies. But suddenly… perestroika!

The open-source movement has been one of the most dramatic changes to impact the software industry in recent memory. Few technical subject matters today are as passionately debated as that of the ...

Microsoft caused considerable consternation in the open source community over the past month, after unveiling a shake-up to the way developers will be able to monetize open source software. There ...

Chef hopes to bring a little clarity to the future of its open-source and commercial software work Tuesday by taking a cue from the most successful open-source business model yet developed. Later ...

Investors are betting on startups that build open source software, saying that many successful companies today emerged during the last recession.

A middle school math curriculum created under an open license goes live—and its creators want it to give the big publishing houses a run for their money.