Dave Dargo has written a thoughtful piece on one problem with proprietary software today: it spends too much time isolating itself as a product, rather than opening up itself and combining to create ...

Struggling with software that doesn’t quite fit your needs can be incredibly frustrating. Off-the-shelf solutions often fall short, leaving you to adapt your processes to the software, rather than the ...

Open source is now the standard for the software industry. Proprietary software is no longer the Goliath it once was. As the demand for more transparency yet better security increases, the challenges ...

Whenever chaos engulfs a proprietary technology relied on by millions, the default knee-jerk reaction from many seems to be: “Hey, let’s see what the open source world has to offer.” Case in point: ...

IANAL, but I think you're safe unless you signed a non-compete agreement with the previous company that hasn't expired yet, and even then you're only in danger IF the software competes directly and IF ...

Edward Snowden, the former NSA computer security consultant, has supported free software movement activist Richard Stallman’s long-standing warnings about proprietary software. His endorsement came ...

Institutions of higher learning are internet-based and include both on-site and online courses. Even some campus based schools are educating housed students remotely due to continued health issues. In ...

Some people hate the idea of adding proprietary software to their desktop Linux. For these people, there are Linux distributions such as gNewSense that use only free software. For the rest of us, who ...