In Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan, a cynic is described as "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" while a sentimentalist is "a man who sees an absurd value in ...

I published a version of this article on Medium eight years ago. This version is updated with new references and arguments. Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across ...

It’s a battle going on across many large corporations: should they manage remote servers via Open Secure Shell freeware or commercial SSH products? It’s a battle going on across many large ...

To its credit, enterprise IT management finally acknowledges open source. To its shame, it fails to foster a culture of contribution. This is particularly counterproductive, given that most developers ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Because of so much interest in a new open-source, freeware version of its IBEAM Web portal coming to the agent and lender community, Consolidated Asset Recovery Systems is planning a ...

Savvy network managers have long known the best way to quickly address some pesky network problems is to scour Internet sites such as freshmeat.net and SourceForge.net for freeware applications.

Patent law may be a potential friend to those engaging in open-source/free software development. But the picture is not all rosy. To evaluate how best to take advantage of patent law to achieve an ...