No longer will anyone be able to say "there's just no market for gaming on Linux." After years of patient waiting and an endless stream of rumors, anyone can now have Steam on…
How are we going to teach the next generation about open source and Linux? More importantly, how can we get the right technology into classrooms to empower our educators to…
I was searching the web for open source projects that featured robotics when I came across the Robot Operating System. I read their website with interest because it was the…
Open source games roundup Week of August 24 - 30, 2014 In this week's edition of our open source games news roundup, we take a look at Screencheat for Linux, Script Kiddies'…
At the school district where I am the director of information technology, over 90% of our information systems have been transitioned to open source software. Ubuntu is the…
During my second year at Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women's University, the first of its kind in India as well as in South-East Asia, I attended a workshop…
The free-market capitalistic definition of companies' goals was, for a long time, very simple: to make as much profit as possible. With that in mind, the only difference…
In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the nine dollar computer, Snappy Ubuntu, the Robot Operating System, and more! Open source news: May…
To celebrate Talk Like a Pirate Day the opensource.com way, we gathered a list of things that have been said through the history of copyright, copying, remixing, and the sort…
Last week the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the highest court in the European Union on matters of EU law, issued a judgment in the case of SAS Institute Inc. v. World…
Few would deny that the rise of GitHub as a popular hosting service for software projects is one of the most significant developments to affect open source during the past…
As has been widely reported, the district court in the Oracle v. Google case has issued an order holding that the "structure, sequence and organization" (SSO) of 37 J2SE 5.0…