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 ...

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.

OS has a wide range of quality open-source apps to choose from, and I couldn't do without some of them. They're powerful and ...

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 ...

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 ...

InfoWorld’s 2023 Bossie Awards recognize the year’s leading open source tools for software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning.

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.

I spent some time testing out Autiobooks recently, to see if open source is really ready for prime time. The simple answer is almost, but there’s still a way to go.

Tom Norton is Newsweek's Fact Check reporter, based in London. His focus is reporting on misinformation and misleading information in U.S. public life. He has in-depth knowledge of open source ...