A few months back, I helped to review and edit a book for Van Lindberg and O'Reilly Media called Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code. Over the past 10 years, ...

The idea of using open-source functionality in the book publishing field has, slowly but surely, gained more momentum lately.open-sourced textbooks could considerably ease college costs and of some ...

The potential for awesome here is exciting. Having state-backed support for such a project is bound to bring the existing projects into a new era of legitimacy, assuming the quality can be maintained.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Technology needs law. Equally and perhaps more so, the legal industry needs to understand what is changing around ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...