As open source alternatives to proprietary applications succeed, they will drive down the cost of the proprietary alternative effectively turning the application into a commodity. For example, if the ...

Open source software has made a huge impact in the software market. One such product could be about to revolutionise e-learning. To quote a well-worn adage: if it looks too good to be true, it ...

Open-source software allows anyone to modify, enhance, or view the source code behind it. It can encourage collaboration in development.

Just because there may be a foundation associated with an open source project, it doesn’t mean that it’s an established, gold-standard foundation.

Synopsys has found that 99% of commercial software programs include at least one open-source component. But 91% of those included out of date or abandoned open-source code.

Blackboard, whose software manages university courses, pledges not to use patents against open-source alternatives.

Open Source is 'programming in the public domain', that is, a group of individuals get together to write and produce extremely useful software, and then make all the code (and hence all their ...

Technology has great potential to expand and improve the ways people learn, yet eLearning has done little more than mimic earlier learning and teaching practices. Why isn't technology living up to its ...