Most free software projects fail. We tend not to hear very much about the failures. Only successful projects attract attention, and there are so many free software projects in total...
...not be in the patent policies – be they from the government or from industry standard bodies – but perhaps in the practices of individual companies. While some companies want...
Early contributions to the academic literature on free/libre and open source software (F/LOSS) movements have been directed primarily at identifying the motivations that account for the sustained and often intensive...
The Internet and the Web have provided everyone with an opportunity to be heard, and an opportunity to hear almost everyone for free. Has so much free access made everyone...
Over the last few years, FLOSS (“Free Libre Open Source Software”) has become a commercially viable reality of the first order. It is viewed as an extrem case of open...
We analyze the question of the incitations for a developer to participate to FLOSS (Free-Libre-Open Source Software) development. We have interviewed some French developers and personalities advocating this form of...
...that the research, follow-up interviews, and analysis for this study all point to one overwhelming take-away: Standards have shifted into high-gear, not only garnering attention from business buyers but more...
...sooner rather than later), which will finally make clear the number of national bodies that have submitted contradictions, as compared to other types of comments in their responses during the...
...release goes on to state: UOF translation tools will be developed and licensed as open source software, and ultimately will be made available as free, downloadable add-ins for Microsoft Office...
...nine (or perhaps by now, more) nations to "P" status in ISO [Updated: the number is now ten - Malta is the new addition.] [Updated: the number is now eleven - Cote...