Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Open source software is a vital part of modern computing; it’s involved in much of the software we use every day. But is it too good to be true, and is it really free, in either sense of the word?

Offering your software product under an open-source software (OSS) license has its advantages. By making the source code of your product available for redistribution and modification, and in many ...

With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

We’ve all seen the news about the waning use of the GPL open source license. It’s also becoming clear that a handful of OSI-approved licenses are going to win out over the 60-plus OSI-approved open ...

Open source licensing gives you the freedom to deploy software for whatever purpose you want, even to tinker with its internals or to build complex systems with components from different developers.

My criticism of the Debian installer in the slink-and-a-half release passed out at LinuxWorld Expo drew a lot of fire from the Debian faithful. I stand by what I wrote, but I will admit that, as a ...

The choice of license can be an important decision for both software developers and end users. When you embark on an open-source project (as we did with the Globus Toolkit about 10 years ago), you ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...