Researchers from the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Science and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) are ...

When competition is tight, companies tend to turn inwards and build higher walls around their ideas. The public sphere becomes ruthless and tight-fisted, and development becomes hushed. But in an ...

Programmers contribute to free software and open-source projects for many reasons--some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills and others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these ...

In the past 20 years, open source software (OSS) has radically changed software development. Open source has gone from being a niche movement to mainstream and is now a core part of the commercial and ...

Custom software development is not an easy endeavor, requiring specific attention to the details that the customer needs for their software. Time is also changing; the emergence of AI combined with ...

One of the biggest developments in software during the past decade has been the growth of the open-source software movement. On the face of it, even the existence of such a movement seems bizarre: Why ...

There are dozens of open source development boards available in the market; in this column we look at ten of the more popular offerings. Open source is one of the most interesting technological topics ...

There are several riffs on the original 'free as in speech, not free as in beer' distinction as a way of explaining open source. I've been saying 'free as in puppy' for years and I coined 'free as in ...

Any game that is assembled from open-source software and allows the public to download its source code is considered an open-source game. To put it another way, an open-source game can be downloaded ...