Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

GPL is unable to meet its current peak demand of 180 MW as generators have broken down and instead of sourcing new ones the government was preoccupied with the gas-to-energy project, according to ...

Since the source code is usually available, software under a free or open open source license can be re-used within another software project rather easily. That is, after all, the whole point of FLOSS ...

Open-source software has revolutionized the computing in the past few decades. Have an Android smartphone? That uses open-source software. The server hosting this website is running open-source ...

perspective Talk about a clean victory. The "GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws," declared the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently. That was in ...

Jeff Haynie reached a crossroads last summer. Haynie, CEO of Appcelerator, a firm that develops open source cross-platform application development software, made a decision filled with implications ...

Until a contract is changed by a court it means what it says. And that's all the GPL is, a contract. As George Ou writes today, TinyPEAP used GPL software, from FreeRADIUS, and the program had to be ...