Open source software (the code) is free and open. Written by Dan Farber, Inactive Aug. 29, 2005 at 2:53 p.m. PT ...

Michael Dolan has a great post exploring the differences between commercial-led open source and community-led open source. The impetus for his muse is the brouhaha over Sun's apparent ...

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 ...

There are many examples of open source software sold in Microsoft’s app store as full-featured commercial applications, ranging from video editing software such as Shotcut, to FTP clients such ...

Here are 31 commercial open-source software startups poised for success in 2020, according to VCs. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

This is similar to how Red Hat, one of the earliest open-source companies in the tech industry, built itself into a $34 billion life raft for IBM by providing enterprise-oriented versions of Linux ...

Raise fees, increase revenue I then looked at the four biggest commercial open-access publishers that relied on publication fees: BMC, Frontiers, MDPI and Hindawi.

Microsoft has confirmed that it won’t be introducing a previously announced new policy that would effectively ban developers from selling open source software on the Windows app store. Section ...