If Richard Stallman achieves his dream, all software will be freely shared, altered and distributed. When he began his one-person mission in 1984, critics dismissed Stallman as someone simply tilting ...

As should be apparent to readers of ZDNet Talkback forums, I enjoy a good debate. My vision of the ideal forum would be a café table where people discuss controversial issues in an environment where ...

If you create software, you have a choice between making it open source or proprietary. If you make it open source, anyone can use your code, within certain restrictions, to make their own programs.