Three years ago, I sat at the breakfast table on Christmas Day reading my Twitterstream. My family wasn’t up yet, so I figured I’d see what my digital peers around the world…
The results are in for U.S. agencies' use of open source, thanks to a scorecard released today by Open Source for America. The Departments of Defense and Energy had the…
I was pretty excited to see the announcement about a sequel to Tron. The original movie was one that helped define my career as a bona fide geek. I still remember being wowed…
Faced with a potentially large threat to free/libre and open source software from patent consortium CPTN, the two organisations have collaborated publicly for the first time…
Today you might have noticed a few new things on opensource.com, like badges appearing under users in the comments. We're launching a points and badge system (in beta) for the…
We're pleased to announce the inaugural winner of the award, Matt Jadud. Matt is an assistant professor of computer science at Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. He's been an…
We're happy to announce another new feature on opensource.com. The Contributor Spotlight now appears on the homepage and features users from our community. Right now, we don't…
Facebook announced this week that they will begin republishing user information in ads in a feature called " sponsored stories." They'll be using your likes and check-ins with…
They're all gone! Thanks to everyone who requested a shirt. For those of you who didn't get one, you've still got a chance through our Twitter giveaway. Tomorrow’s the first…
Congratulations to our first People's Choice Award winner, Máirín Duffy. Máirín is a senior interaction designer at Red Hat. She's highly creative and a great artist, who is…
FUDCon Tempe gets started tonight. Even if you're not there, you can still join in. We're finishing up the opensource.com anniversary week by liveblogging open source stories…
We've waited all summer to find out what will happen when the students who have been working on Diaspora return to school and launch the P2P Facebook killer. Now September has…