Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he ...

We trace the rise of free open source software—code that can be freely modified and shared—from philosophical outlier to modern powerhouse Underlying every piece of software you use is source code ...

An umbrella term for software that is designed for a specific application or niche. What is specialty software one day often becomes a mainstream application later on. See special. THIS DEFINITION IS ...