Terms such as Freeware, Free software, Open source, Shareware, Trialware, Adware, Nagware, etc are often used to define programs. Does one really know the difference between freeware and free software ...

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From time to time, we have been covering good freeware and free software in our Downloads section. We have also been posting about ‘Best 5’ or ‘Top 10’ software in various categories. In this post, I ...

Portland, Oregon-based Crowd Supply, a curated crowdfunding and e-commerce company that focuses on open-source projects, has launched a project to create the first pure free-software laptop: Purism ...

Jeanne Light wonders whether it’s safe to use free software. “What do [the authors] get out of it?” She feels, understandably, quite skeptical. It’s good to be skeptical. And careful. Free products ...

There are free and open source alternatives to just about every proprietary software package available today–the trick is just finding the right ones for your business. Luckily, fresh help is now on ...

LulzBot AO-100 3D printer now FSF-certified to respect your freedom by Josh Gay — Published on Oct 09, 2012 06:22 PM "BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Tuesday, October 9th, 2012 — The Free Software ...

Just because you're not forking over any money doesn't mean you're not paying a price for that freeware. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer ...

It was twenty years ago on Monday that I quit my job at MIT to begin developing a free software operating system, GNU. While we have never released a complete GNU system suitable for production use, a ...