In Tuesday’s Minnesota Student Association forum, student government leaders said they will push for open-source textbooks this year. Open-source books, or free and freely distributed texts, are a ...

One problem that all college students relate to one another on is textbook prices. Each semester, we dread buying books because of the unnecessarily high costs. President Eric Kaler believes that the ...

If you ever looked for open-source e-readers, you’ve no doubt seen [Joey Castillo]’s Open Book reader, but you might not yet have seen the Abridged version he’s building around a Raspberry ...

And according to the 2002 book Free as in Freedom, Richard M. Stallman, then a 27-year-old programmer at MIT, ... Today, 96% of all code bases incorporate open-source software.

Your open source project can begin as a pet project but only if you can devote time to it. About 10 hours per week for a given period of time (three or six months) is a good starting point.

A team of authors tackle these questions in their new book "Open Source Investigations in the Age of Google." This new interdisciplinary book seeks to answer these questions and more, with ...