Every year, on the first weekend of February, a certain Brussels university campus livens up. There, you will find enthusiasts of open-source software and hardware alike, arriving from different ...

IT executives from a dozen states will meet in Oregon this week to take a close look at open source software and how a collaborative approach to application development could help them cut costs and ...

There's a slew of open source conferences coming up this fall in the US and in Europe. Here are a few of the highlights: -Utah Open Source Conference, Sept 6-8, Provo -Rails Conf Europe, Sept 17-19, ...

RALEIGH – All Things Open, the biggest open source conference on the east coast, is heading into what it describes as the “luckiest” event yet. Next week marks the 13th annual All Things Open at the ...

I mentioned the Gartner conference among a few of the upcoming open source events this fall. I've been to the past versions of this conference in Phoenix and in Orlando and it's a very good event for ...

Doing his best impersonation of a fox in the chicken coop who means no harm to the chickens, Microsoft’s Stuart McKee spoke at an open source conference in San Francisco today delivering a message of ...

SAN DIEGO — Despite recent changes by Microsoft Corp. to its licensing strategy for some software, the debate between commercial software developers and the open-source community continued to rage on ...

Microsoft plans to use this week’s Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) to outline its move into the next phase of its open source strategy around building a business model for the down economy, ...

The Mac has become commonplace at open source conferences. Why? Why is such a closed platform a massive hit among freedom-loving developers? Matt Asay Contributing Writer Matt Asay is a veteran ...

For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it as "free" and instead think of it as "connected capitalism," delegates at an open-source conference in London were told on Tuesday.

Decentralization and open-source software are two of Bitcoin’s core tenets, yet industry conferences tend to be centralized affairs, typically funded, sponsored, planned and coordinated by companies ...

It's not that companies aren't interested in his ideas for revolutionizing computing and saving money by embracing nonproprietary software with shared code. Rather, his reputation as a gadfly at ...