If you can't beat 'em, join 'em--in large numbers. That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, ...

You'd think it would be easy to research the right-hand man of free-software icon Richard Stallman, given the mass of information online about the free-software movement. But a search on "Peter Brown" ...

In a splashy announcement Thursday, Microsoft Corp. touted new efforts to improve the interoperability of its key software products with open-source projects and products from other vendors. Some in ...

Free and open software have transformed the tech industry. But we still have a lot to work out to make them healthy, equitable enterprises. When Xerox donated a new laser printer to the MIT Artificial ...

Would you believe that almost all of the technology you use today is here because of a misbehaving printer? Believe it. In the early 1980s, an MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory programmer named ...