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One of the most extraordinary - and under-recognised - developments in free software is the blossoming of specialist software applications. ...

Jackboot Jacqui is at it again: The government Interception Modernisation Programme (gIMP), a plan by spy chiefs to centrally collect detai...

In the world of closed-source software, it's hard to get a project going in a sector with established players. Since everything must be...

PC BOX BUILDERS are thinking of getting rid of the tradition of stuffing your new PC or laptop with trial software that you don’t really wan...

One of the persistent myths about free software is that successes like Linux are one-offs, and that the open source methodology can't be...

On Thursday, WalMart begins selling the Everex Green gPC TC2502, a $198, low-power, Linux-based PC designed primarily for running Web 2.0 ap...

The Portuguese Ministry of Education is doing the sensible thing and giving away a CD full of free (Windows) software to 1.6 million stude...

For many years, the only decent free end-user app was GIMP , and the history of open source on the desktop has been one of gradually filling...

Most computer users by now have heard of the Firefox browser. This is hardly surprising given the extraordinary rate at which it is still ...